Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cord Meyer Jr., 27, is a pale young man with a preoccupied smile and wavy brown hair. His paleness and his preoccupation are the marks of war: he was very nearly killed on Guam. He lost an eye and had his face shattered when a Jap grenade exploded in his foxhole.* Since his discharge from the Marines, Cord Meyer has been a young man on a crusade. He is the president of United World Federalists, which seeks to save the world through a limited federation before an atomic war destroys...
...Rome last week, an eye-catching story splashed across the columns of the independent Il Tempo. The left-wing partisans who call themselves "Garibaldini" would wear new khaki uniforms with red neckerchiefs and visored caps at a grand parade on Feb. 18. The partisans also had arms and ammunition. Asked II Tempo: "What does Scelba think of this...
...rich fields of northern Argentina, sugar cane grows as high as an elephant's eye, and avocados are as big as coconuts. But the great world port of Buenos Aires is 1,000 miles to the south, and the towering Andes have always blocked the shortcut route west through Chile to the Pacific. For three-quarters of a century, the people of the region have loudly demanded a trans-Andean railway; for more than a quarter of a century they have been building it. Last week they had it. A coca-chewing Indian had slung a sledge, a last...
...have a car, it costs quite a chunk of change to get to the ski country. If you do have a car, chances are, you might find yourself stranded along about midnight somewhere in the New Hampshire wilderness. So with an eye to the pocketbook and comfort of the ski enthusiast, the Boston and Maine Railroad has invented the Snotrain, and the Inter-Collegiate Outing Clubs Association, the Snobus...
Stocky "Ben" Ford, an easygoing young man with a ready smile, has his grandfather's blue eyes and some of his restless energy. He also has a will of his own. He was the first of the grandsons (Henry II, Benson and William Clay, 22) to buck his grandfather's edict against smoking. Over family objections, he wangled his way into the Army as a private after he had twice been marked 4-F by his draft board (he is almost blind in one eye). He left the Army in January 1946, a captain in the Air Forces...