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...feet clinking with ice, shuffled across the frozen swampland, friendly Austrian voices greeted them and white handkerchiefs waved. All last week they came, every day thousands of refugees from stricken Hungary, peasant families, workers, students, young children with notes of identity pinned to their clothing. Once across the frontier ditch they would look back, and there would be a wild shouting of names. Women refugees kissed the first people they met, turned aside and wept. Men pulled off frozen-fingered gloves and shook hands...
...flea-sized army appeared Lilliputian figures alongside the forces they were to keep apart (the Anglo-French invasion force alone was 50,000 strong). In Egypt the puny army must somehow ensure that two of the greatest nations in Europe abandon with grievous loss of face a last-ditch attempt to dominate a region of the world vital to their survival as major powers...
...there was calm. Then six minutes after the trouble began, another engine-No. 4-choked to a stop. With both outboard engines out of commission, Captain Ogg knew for certain now that he could not make the 1,000 miles to San Francisco-that he would have to ditch. Rather than dump gas and risk a night landing, he decided to wait till daylight and let the plane exhaust its heavy fuel load. He so notified the Coast Guard weather-watch cutter, Pontchartrain, some comfortable ten miles to the west. Pontchartrain's skipper, Commander William K. Earle, radioed...
...they could tell us," says the wife bewilderedly. A Johannesburg housewife is about to leave on a European vacation, leaving her children in the charge of a black "mammy." Then she learns that the trusted mammy has just strangled her own newborn baby and tossed it into a roadside ditch. Even in the stories where the meaning is caught in a web of nuance, there are. still revelations. A woman determinedly denies her love to her stepchild with the noble but misguided intent of preserving the child's love for his real mother; she ends by alienating the child...
...York and London financial markets last week there was a new speculative favorite: the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez. After a drastic drop from $260 in the wake of Nasser's nationalization of the big ditch, the shares have finally begun edging up and last week reached $182, four points above crisis low. Said a London dealer: "Since the crisis there have been many more canal buyers in London than before. Shares used to change hands by the fifties and hundreds. Now they change hands by the thousands...