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...drivers were then allowed to turn back. Had they gone on they would have found special gasoline stores, ambulances, doctors and truck-borne patrols of mechanics waiting along 2,000 miles of highway. As they drove homeward, most wives had only one complaint-the Army had forgotten to set up latrines for women at Palmer...
...homeward-bound Wall Streeter stopped at Manhattan's Washington Market one afternoon last week to pick up an order of filet mignon. When he found it was $2.25 a pound, up from $1.90 the week before, he canceled the order. Said he valiantly: "I'll eat money. It's cheaper...
Argentina's energetic little Finance Minister, Ramon Cereijo, bounced aboard his FAMA plane at New York's Idlewild Airport one morning last week, and flew homeward with gladsome news. Argentina had been promised $200 million in U.S. Government and private bank credits. A formal announcement was expected within a few days...
...nights on Scotland's Isle of Mull, they say, a lonely dog still howls on the beach for his Spanish master drowned 362 years ago in the peaceful waters of Tobermory Bay. Both had sailed against England in 1588 in King Philip's mighty Armada. On the homeward trip, their ship "much beeten with shote and wether," sailed westward into Tobermory Bay where her grandee captain, arrogant even in defeat, demanded food and aid from the local Scots...
...Look Homeward, Angel's schoolmam Margaret Leonard, Thomas Wolfe wrote: "It was the most tranquil and the most passionate face he had ever seen . . . If he noticed her emaciation at all now, it was only with a sense of her purification . . . One by one the merciless years reaped down his gods and captains. What had lived up to hope? . . . Enduring, a victorious reality amid his shadow-haunted heart, she remained, who first had touched his blinded eyes with light, who nested his hooded houseless soul...