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...helping defeat the Communists in the critical 1948 elections (partially by dramatizing U.S. aid). As Ambassador to Spain (1953-55), he helped develop the new U.S. policy of good relations with Franco. Moving on to booming Brazil in February 1955, he concentrated on touring remote jungles and backwaters by jeep, plane and dugout canoe, impressed Brazilians by his outspoken sympathy and support. "I wish I were younger," he would say of Brazil. "I would like to see this country 40 years from...
...There's Route 9. Less than twelve miles to go. Here's where we make time. Yo ho! Look at us roll down hill. There's a jeep alongside of us. What did they say? Forty miles an hour. My word, this is dangerous. Ralph, don't try to pass the truck. Ralph, he dragging us. I can't watch...
...Handsome, strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) King Paul, 54, inherited the battered Greek crown from his late brother George II in 1947 when Greece was bleeding from the civil war, and with his vivacious Queen Frederika, toured the country by jeep and muleback to restore confidence in the throne. He reigns with a minimum of pomp and with a warm public following...
Next day the first use of force was not British but Greek-Cypriot. An army jeep was ambushed and its driver slain. British Major Brian Coombe grabbed a Sten gun and fought off the attackers, taking two wounded prisoners and killing one man. The dead terrorist had had a $14,000 price on his head and a distinguished relative: he was a cousin of Archbishop Makarios...
...with Fereydoun Ala, the son of the Iranian Prime Minister, and his brother-in-law, Narcy Firouz. Driving through Iran in September, natives told them about a herd of Dziggetais, the onager's Persian name. When the travelers saw a group of 30, they dashed in pursuit in a jeep. Potter said that the tactics used were to drive along side one of the running animals and then, "Lean out, hug him around the neck, and let him pull you out. He soon tires. Then you threw him to the ground and rope...