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...more than a strike. It's a big thrill, and it's a thing that doesn't happen in most other sports -where the beginner can't do anything right for a long time." Adds" Jack Vaughan, manager of Albuquerque's Bowl-a-Drome: "Where else can a woman compete after she gets married? They need competition just like...
Chinese Communists began to see U.S. spies around every corner. To show the public how to detect secret agents, the Shanghai municipal government staged a special anti-espionage exhibit at the Cani-drome, old dog-racing track in the French Concession. The Shanghai police published an illustrated magazine called the Shanghai Public Security Pictorial, with pictures of arrests and executions in recent espionage cases...
Shouting, "Tout pour le front lopulaire -everything for the lopular front!" 10,000 exuberant conspirators converged on the square before their favorite Tav-erne du Pantheon, known as the Lopo-drome. Police barred their way. Undaunted, singing their battle hymn, "Lop, lop, lop lop lop, lop lop lop. . . ." (to the tune of Stars & Stripes Forever), they marched into the nearby Salle des Societes Savantes...
Almost every day U.S. Army Liberators bombed the Marshalls; once they paid two visits between dawn and dusk. The big bombers pummeled Wot je's drome, tore up Taroa's runways, buildings and anchorage, damaged Jaluit's shore defenses, all secretly installed since the Japs took over this mandate from the unsuspecting League of Nations...
Most daring was a raid against the Foggia air, rail and road junction on Italy's Adriatic flank. Reconnaissance had shown that the Luftwaffe had dispersed a fleet of Junkers 88s across Foggia's main drome and ten satellite fields. A carefully coached armada of more than 100 Lightnings raced across the Mediterranean and the Italian boot, roared across the dusty plain around Foggia, at hedgehopping altitude, caught the Germans by surprise. Their strafing fire raked at least...