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Great Hopes. From West Coast ports sailed two carriers laden with planes. Farther westward, occasional warships crept into Pearl Harbor, vanished into the reaches of the Pacific. Through Hawaii flowed the other, inevitable, steady stream of war-commercial airliners out of the Far East carrying hundreds of civilian evacuees. Two airborne arrivals flew directly on to Washington. They were Generals J. Lawton Collins and Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chiefs of the nation's ground and air forces, fresh from consultation with Douglas MacArthur. Their colleague, Admiral Forrest Sherman, was in Washington consulting with Congressmen. The day after the Korean Reds...
...night last week they found their man. The carabinieri opened fire. Giuliano fled, firing over his shoulder as he went. For 15 minutes the chase led on through labyrinths of twisted alleys and courtyards. Captain Antonio Perenze, leader of the carabinieri, hid in a doorway. A stalking figure crept up, machine gun set. Perenze blasted pointblank. The figure whirled, tottered and fell face down, a dark red splotch welling up under his white shirt...
...only Spanish custom but municipal law prescribes the wearing of shirts, collars (preferably starched), neckties *and jackets on the streets of Madrid, regardless of the weather. Last week, as Madrid sweltered under a 98° heat, a new criminal stalked the city's streets, and a new word crept into the Spanish vocabulary to describe...
Gradually, the swarming Puerto Ricans pushed the Negroes north, the Italians eastward. They expanded across the top of Central Park, crept down the other side. Other pockets established themselves on the lower East Side, in Brooklyn and The Bronx...
Parts of Mr. Orton's ears were missing. Captain James Cook of H.M.S. Endeavour was very much upset; his ship's clerk had been grossly abused. The poor fellow had gone to bed drunk in the ordinary way, and then someone had crept into his cabin and cropped his ears. There had been no witnesses, but on circumstantial evidence Captain Cook suspended a midshipman from duty for three weeks...