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...Nobody can say anything but the best about Ike." Taxi drivers, fishmongers, newspapermen echoed her words. In Luxembourg, street crowds chanted "Ike! Ike! Ike!" in the most undignified and friendly manner possible. U.S. occupation troops in Austria. Italy and Germany seemed to forget that they were fed up with garrison duty...
Leaving their wounded bleeding on the floor inside, the defeated garrison of Cantrell-Mansfield followers filed out, hands high in the air. Under a glaring spotlight beamed on the damaged entrance, the onetime law of McMinn County squinted wearily at a jeering, taunting...
...near Denver. Flood walls are being pushed up to make a levee system from Sioux City to Big Muddy's mouth above St. Louis. Soon the bulldozer battalions will move in on one of the biggest jobs of all-the huge dam and 200-mile-long lake at Garrison, N.D. Kanopolis Dam on the Smoky Hill, Kortes
Flag details and a bugler stood at attention. Before the South Seymour Island Service Club, the U.S. garrison faced the Ecuadorean sailors. Galápagos goats idled nearby. Then the bugler blew retreat and the U.S. flag came down on Ecuadorean soil. But the U.S. abandonment of its Galápagos outpost was more protocol than reality. Ecuador is broke. Until the Government can face either the political risks of an outright lease to the U.S. or afford to keep the bases in repair, some 100 U.S. "technicians" would stay around to help...
Gunboats prowled along the Arakan coast and up the muddy Irrawaddy. Mechanized units rumbled over Burma's uneven dirt roads. At key airdromes R.A.F. transports stood ready to fly crack combat units where they were needed. Burma's garrison of about 50,000 British and Indian troops was three times prewar size and growing...