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...Portuguese explorers staggered out of its jungles bringing tales of a great lost City of Gold in a Garden of Eden. Plunging into the trackless Mato Grosso (Thick Forest), such 20th century big-game hunters as Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander ("Tiger Man") Siemel encountered jaguars hardly smaller than the fiercest tigers of Bengal. Nine years ago, out to win the 116,000 square miles of this wild Brazilian west. President Getulio Vargas set up the government-financed Central Brazil Foundation and ordered: "Conquer the wilderness. Colonize the area...
...while fighter-bombers blasted the Chinese positions by day and by night. It was still a small-scale action in contrast to the giant Communist offensives and allied counteroffensives in the spring of 1951, but it involved battalions and regiments instead of squads and platoons, and it was the fiercest fighting of 1952. Hundreds of Reds were reported killed and the U.S. casualty rate also rose...
...troublemakers were ordered to come out of one compound; when they refused, U.S. troops, backed by four tanks, were sent in to fetch them. The Reds hurled spears and barbed-wire flails; the Americans retaliated with tear gas and concussion grenades which stun but do not kill. Fiercest fighters of all were 600 Red amputees who hopped about on their stumps, using their crutches as clubs. Nine G.I.s were wounded; one Red was killed, 84 wounded...
...enemy flak. Red antiaircraft fire, increasing constantly in quality and quantity, now curtains long stretches of railroad, and on the highways Red flak-wagons guard the truck convoys. Around some sensitive targets in North Korea, the flak, automatic and radar-directed, is as deadly as the fiercest German concentrations of World...
King George's death caught Parliament in the midst of one of the fiercest debates in its recent history, and instantly stilled that debate (see above). On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Commons met briefly to hear the news officially announced by the Prime Minister, and then recessed. The government ministers, together with leaders of the Opposition, the Privy Council and other prominent Britons, had a more important meeting to attend: the meeting of the Accession Council, the oldest governmental convocation in England, 192 of whose members gathered at St. James's Palace to determine formally...