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...Briton, 23 were Americans who had chosen to renounce their homeland and live on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain. A band of U.S. newsmen silently watched the group dismount, chattering and joking with each other and looking-except for their faded blue P.W. uniforms-like a bunch of crew-cut American college boys returning from vacation. One of them spotted a Chinese newspaperman. "Hey, Comrade Lee," he shouted, "see you in Peking." A Chinese Communist called: "Don't forget us!" "Never!" cried another American...
...shaded by a parasol and fanned by a long-handled fly sweeper, drew near. Ben Abdallah revved up the motor, threw the old roadster into gear and roared at 40 m.p.h. straight at the mounted Sultan. For a startled instant, the Sultan watched the oncoming car, then began to dismount. A tough professional soldier, Calais-born Robert King, who is physical training instructor of the Sultan's guards, leaped on the running board of the Ford, grabbed ben Abdallah by the neck and wrestled him from the car. Ben Abdallah pulled a butcher knife from his djellaba and sliced...
...fake-with its "pretentious airs of romanticism," its "tourist traps." In Paris, Tenn., the Gossets felt a twinge of outraged national pride at the "made in Paris" perfumes. But their spirits revived when they saw a horseman ride up to a parking meter, throw the bridle across the meter, dismount and deposit a coin...
...fair circuit later this summer. Performed by four new Harvester tractors, the dance is designed to show just how fast the machines can hitch up to various farm implements, with the help of a new hydraulic coupling device. With Harvester's new coupler, farmers do not have to dismount from their tractors to hitch or unhitch plows, harrows, weeders and other Harvester implements; working from the tractor seat, they can do the job in seven seconds...
...Join your rest to your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming-pan! Charge your musket! Draw forth your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Put in your bullet and ram home! Present! Give fire! Dismount your musket! Uncock your match! Return your match! Clear your pan! Prime your pan! Shut your pan! Cast off your loose powder! Blow off your loose powder! Cast about your musket! Trail your rest! Open your charge! Withdraw your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Return your scouring stick! Recover...