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...scene of all this contention is a beautiful, sparsely populated 222,000-acre valley, where frontier rustlers once hid out. For 50 years conservationists have been fighting to make it a park. But many a Congressman and rancher bristled. Their argument: the Federal Government already owns too much western land; Federal ownership cuts down State land taxes. In his veto the President rejoined: Wyoming is still permitted to tax private lands in the valley, and private grazing rights remain inviolate...
...last of Germany's great battleships, the 42,000-ton Tirpitz, lived a desperate, hunted life almost from her completion in 1941. Much of the time she hid in harbors licking the wounds from persistent British air attacks. This week off Tromso harbor in northern Norway her barren career ended. Said the British Air Ministry: "Twentynine Lancasters of the R.A.F. Bomber Command . . . attacked the German battleship Tirpitz with 12,0001b. bombs. There were several direct hits and within a few minutes the ship capsized and sank. One of our aircraft is missing...
...election was a vote for U.S. participation in the ordering of the world, an endorsement of the working partnership of Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Chiang Kaishek, both in war & peace - and a promise that this time the U.S. would not withdraw. Political leaders abroad no longer hid their relief...
...Paul Eluard, tall, elegant Surrealist poet turned Communist, emerged as the principal literary figure of French resistance. Hunted by the Gestapo for his anti-Nazi pamphlets and clandestine magazine La Pensée Libre, he finally hid in an insane asylum where psychoanalysts and nurses secretly tended Maquis wounded...
This week the Government tried to try Mussolini's blood-stained police chief, Pietro Caruso. Howling Romans surged into the courtroom, demanded Caruso for themselves. Police hid him in a back room. Balked, the mob turned on plump, well-fed Donato Caretta, deposed boss of the infamous Regina Coeli jail and a prosecution witness. Men & women spat at him, screeched at him, kicked him, slugged him. They threw him in the Tiber. Boatmen bashed in his head with heavy oars, towed his lifeless body to the jail. Then the people strung him head down and near-naked from...