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Athenians were regaling each other with the tale of an encounter between a U.S. Army engineer and a Greek peasant. The engineer was taking a sight through his transit along a rural road when the countryman rode up on a donkey. The Greek watched in mystified silence for some time, and then asked the American what he was up to. "Measuring the shortest distance between this point and that village over there," explained the American. "Well," the peasant muttered half to himself, "that certainly seems a complicated way to do such a simple job." "Is that so?" asked the engineer...
...first light of dawn, soldiers carrying huge bowls of steaming rice cautiously picked their way down the trench-laced narrow streets. A donkey hitched to an ancient wooden-wheeled cart, loaded with shining black 105 mm. shell cases, munched slowly...
...Will Stay." A more common attitude was expressed by a Tangshan miner in blue dungarees, driving a donkey cart heaped with coal. "My life is now bitter," he said. "For ten shifts I get a bag of flour. For 20 shifts I get a ration of coal." Would he flee if the Reds came? The miner snorted. "Flee? Flee where? To America?" A crowd of workmen chorused their agreement. "Nothing could be much worse than our life now," said one. "We will stay...
...size imaginable to military ingenuity. While soldiers piled bricks to build more pillboxes, brown-skinned Shansi farmers worked unperturbed in patches of cabbage, surprisingly still green. Nestled close to the road itself was a rabbit warren of trenches. The road was clogged with a procession of laden camels, donkey carts, peasants carrying baskets on shoulder poles and others pushing crude barrows...
...humanities. True, courses in military history and the psychology of military leadership come under these headings, and another course in the department teaches relations with the National Guard and Reserves, but there is at least a realization of the old maxim that there are two ways to lead a donkey...