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...Constellation, helicopter, limousine. jeep, tractor, oxcart and imperial coach, Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon circled the globe. In ten speech-filled weeks he traveled 45,539 miles, visiting 19 Pacific and Asian lands, shaking thousands of hands. Last week Dick Nixon and his wife Pat returned to Washington...
...Flying Jeep. A stubby, lightweight Jeep (almost 3 ft. shorter, 1,200 Ibs. lighter than standard models), designed for airlift by helicopter or plane, was shown off by Willys Motors, Inc. It has an all-aluminum body and magnesium wheels; 85% of the parts are interchangeable with regular Jeeps...
Nearly two weeks after V Corps had marched away, his newfound friends in Ginsheim finally told Army authorities about the abandoned sentry. Frenchy's platoon leader scurried over in a jeep. " 'Get your stuff, Frenchy,' he told me. 'We're going back.' I says, 'What about the boats?' He said: The hell with the goddamn boats...
When the enemy had overrun the city and surrounded it to a depth of three miles. General Dean gave the retreat order and led the last Americans in a motor column south from Taejon. Outside the city, he picked up seven walking wounded, loaded them into his jeep and climbed aboard the prime mover of a howitzer. At an enemy roadblock. Dean's aide and his interpreter were wounded. Finally the battered motorcade was stopped by a stalled truck which blocked the road. Dean ordered the vehicles abandoned, and led the men on foot across country into a bean...
Seated in a jeep to save wear & tear on his ailing hip. TV Star Arthur Godfrey joined friends for the opening of the Michigan deer-hunting season. Among his fellow huntsmen: Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, General Motors' President Harlow H. Curtice, SACommander General Curtis LeMay. In two days Godfrey fired five times, missed each time. Bag for the rest of the party: five bucks...