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...Ministry of Transport. He has a glowing bald spot, and his once rugged frame has grown so fat and flabby that his staff refer to him covertly in the Berlin dialect as "Pfannkuchen uff Beene"-pancake on legs. But inside, as the West is learning to its discomfort, Ernst Wollweber is still the tough and brutal plotter, still a master of his craft. His diligent Red troublemakers and riot-prompters speckle Western Germany. His saboteurs have infiltrated West Germany so extensively in recent months that West German industrialists announced last week they were planning a mutual security program to protect...
Case History. "When a human being is physically and mentally broken, and placed in solitary confinement for 17 long months, his world is largely one of emotional, mental, and spiritual imagery. And if his body is further affected by stimulants, malnutrition, and discomfort close to degradation, his world becomes one of incredible unreality. I ask you . . . to think of me as a case history...
...Know They Know." Tomorrow's communique will merely say that "Navy Privateers continued routine patrol operations." Routine is the right word. The communiques could say nothing about the endless boredom, the aching discomfort endured by 13 men sealed in a steel flying tube for ten or twelve hours. Or the gnawing, ever-present fear of the unexpected which could plunge you into the water below-or, worse, make you a prisoner in Siberia. "We know they know we're here," said Lieut. McCord. "Our radar shows when their radars are working. Sometimes they send up fighters...
...town called Woodbridge-a dormitory for factory workers perched above the marshes-wives, fathers, husbands, sons converged from the neat towns of the Jersey shore. They gathered in numbed and desperate numbers at the entrances of hospitals, tugged at the sleeves of rescue workers, sat in rigid discomfort on the hard chairs in the Sunday-school room of Woodbridge's Methodist Church...
...greater crises. The unique feature of this one was that it seemed to have no focus, no great principle at stake, no end. If the clamor got too great, Attlee could always jettison Webb and agree to the Argentine meat price. Socialism was an admirable instrument for rationing discomfort and deadening pain...