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...Naples you may come home and find a goat in your bed. In China, when you wiggle your ears, people walk backwards in front of you trying to learn the trick. Algiers is a very provincial place, and India's great Taj Mahal is a piece of architectural corn...
Nevertheless, stern measures have been laid out. The latest plan for its control, "revised directive 1067," laid on President Truman's desk only ten days before war's end, followed closely the Morgenthau or "goat pasture" plan. Southern Germany would largely revert to agrarian economy. All industry capable of producing armaments (a broad definition) would be destroyed or transferred, the remainder controlled by the occupation forces. The educational system would be overhauled...
...street crowds in Chicago, San Francisco and New York broke up, as the people flicked off their radios, the search for a goat began. From San Francisco, A.P. revealed that the unnamed "high official" quoted in its report was Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign...
...poor stock that did not have its fling. Nor was there any sheep-&-goat distinction between war & peace stocks. War-plane-building Douglas Aircraft Co. climbed four points in a few hours to a new high. Right along with it were Chrysler Corp. and General Motors Corp., who hope to make plenty of money in peacetime markets...
...lost more face than he could spare. Finally he stomped in to see the disturbed Regent, old Archbishop Damaskinos. Behind closed doors, angry voices grappled. The bearded Archbishop, who in his day had wrestled men as well as souls, would not be thrown. The General screamed: "Tragos!" ("Billy goat!"). Then he stomped out and resigned...