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...black-bearded pfc. took up the story: "The Chinks hit the driver in the front machine, and that stopped the column. Everybody got rattled. As soon as somebody fell, the Chinks would grab his weapon. Somebody hollered 'There's one!' and I fired. But it was only a tree. Somebody hollered 'Let's get out of here.' I turned around and the world seemed to explode at my feet. Blood gushed everywhere. I knew I had had it then and there...
...Chance of a Lifetime's" chance comes when an English factory owner, tired of incessant labor disputes, offers to turn his plant over to its workers. The workers grab the chance, production soars, and the factory runs along with enthusiastic efficiency. But the workers are no managers, a complicated contract turns up, and they finally have to reactivate their old boss to help them out. It takes some remarkably restrained acting to keep the plot from soaking the moviegoer with a flood of melodrama...
...Communists grab Iran, they will get an asset far more valuable than Korea. Through Iran lie Russia's paths to the rest of the Middle East oil: the great fields of Iraq and Arabia, and the Bahrein-Sidon, Kirkuk-Haifa and Kirkuk-Tripoli pipelines (see map). With U.S. encouragement, Western Europe depends more & more on Middle East rather than Western Hemisphere oil. This shift is economically and strategically sensible, provided that the Western powers intend to defend the Middle East. Fact is, however, that they show no serious sign of such an intention. Turkey is the only country...
...First National Bank, seats himself at the desk tagged Chairman of the Board and settles to work. At 10:30, Chairman Ernest Boyd MacNaughton marches out again and takes over his second desk as president of the Portland Oregonian (circ. 224,314). Finally, after a quick lunch at "a grab and grunt stand," Mr. Mac heads for his third and favorite job-president of Reed College (enrollment...
...bobbies are all benign, high-minded, comradely chaps, as alike as the buttons on a uniform. At home, they grow begonias; in the clubby atmosphere of the station house, they grab spare moments for darts and glee-club practice...