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Boxcars to Breakfast. At 4 a.m. the floor was cleared for more dancing-much more enthusiastic dancing than at the gym-and at 5 o'clock the party moved to the depot for a train "trip to the Orient" (Orient being a hamlet twelve miles away). The orchestra hit it up in a boxcar between two coaches, and the boys & girls who were too weary to dance either necked or threw confetti out the windows on the sleeping countryside. Two hours later, as the train clattered back into Creston, past the water tower, the band broke into Auld Lang...
Moscow, Idaho is a pleasant, placid town in the middle of rolling, prospering farmland. There are 14 churches and a red brick railroad depot in Moscow, and the four-story Elk's Club is the tallest building in town. Local products are dried peas (nearly all the world's supply is produced in the area) and students (nearly a third of the town's 10,593 residents are students at the University of Idaho). Nobody really knows how Moscow got its name (it was possibly a gesture of sympathy toward Russia during the Crimean War), and hardly...
...west bank of the Suez Canal, from Port Said 90 miles south to Suez, houses the mightiest military base in the Middle East. It is jammed with 37 big military installations-ten fully equipped airfields, docks, dumps, hospitals, radar stations, the world's largest ordnance depot. Building the base took the British 38 years and more than $1.5 billion. This week they will sit down in Cairo and begin negotiations for giving it all up to the Egyptians...
...start, few of his big, set speeches were ever as effective as his short whistle-stop talks. Here Ike was in his element: half the town gathered at the depot, high-school bands playing John Philip Sousa, the kids excused from school excitedly scrambling over freight cars and station buildings for a better look. These talks were far from polished; Ike's grammar could be hair-raising. The correspondents on his campaign train gleefully kept score of his cliches; but Eisenhower somehow can get away with cliches. When he says "I love this land...
...enclose a reproduction of Hansen's photo of his depot. The mountain seen in the background of his picture is the summit of the Cooper Key Mountain...