Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death penalty, left the courtroom snapping: "The goddamdest travesty on justice, ever." The Justice Department, apparently dissatisfied with Judge Chandler's decision too, agreed to surrender the killer to Imperial County, Calif., where officials felt certain they could send him to the gas chamber for the desert killing of a vacationing Seattle salesman...
...morning last week, 32 new cars began to roll out of Los Angeles on the first leg of a trip which twisted up the slopes of snow-capped mountains and along parched desert highways to the rim of the Grand Canyon. Purpose of the trip: to find out which U.S. cars get the most mileage and efficiency from their fuel. Every major U.S. make, except Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac, was represented. At journey's end, about 21 driving hours later, the cars had traveled from 280 feet below sea level to 7,005 feet above, had covered 840 miles...
...Glass and Cleveland's Al Polizzi are partners in Miami Beach's Sands Hotel. New York's Frank Erickson shared the Colonial Inn in Hallandale, Fla. with Detroit's Mert Wertheimer; Cleveland's Tommy McGinty has "maybe $1,500,000" in Las Vegas' Desert...
...Imperial Valley of California last week, twelve acres of assorted wheat plants were growing in the hot desert sun. Department of Agriculture scientists, tending them as carefully as premature babies, hope that one or more of the 600 varieties now being tested will overcome "Race 15B," the new strain of black stem rust that is seriously threatening the U.S. wheat crop...
Alone in Paris, a homosexual watches blond, sun-tanned Germans fill streets emptied of law and respectability. "Anything goes!" he thinks, and lures a young deserter to his room. Roads are packed with townspeople fleeing the unknown invaders, while soldiers wait in vain for orders, seeing their officers desert. Among the soldiers is Mathieu, ex-teacher of philosophy; while his companions try to hold a cracking world together with plans for new life, Mathieu is absorbed in tracing their personal guilt in the collapse...