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...children in his hospital are found wandering the city streets, abandoned by parents and relatives; some are simply dropped at the hospital's large, white wooden gates. A few weeks ago, the doctor found a baby who had been left on the seat of his parked jeep. The mission, built to accommodate 30 patients, now houses 150, of which 65 are homeless orphans...
Palmorston Style. Fed up with the past humiliations in Iran and Egypt, the British were putting on a fine old-fashioned Palmerstonian display of Empire. R.A.F. fighters buzzed up and down the 750-mile-long camel tracks running into Saudi Arabia, searching out reinforcements bound for Turki. Jeep-borne Oman levies roamed everywhere, terrifying camel caravans. From a 40-foot-high Beau Geste-like tower of mud-brick reinforced with palm logs-containing storerooms for food, water and ammunition, and slotted for rifles-a young British major named Peter MacDonald was happily running the show...
Later, when Bibi and her father had bounced safely off to Pakistan in a jeep and Tara Singh had boarded a train to return home to Sunam, everyone was still talking and arguing over this amazing happening. On the train, one man, who did not recognize Tara Singh, vented his feelings. "A Sikh who repays the wickedness of the Moslems by a generous action like that," he exclaimed, "deserves to be shot." But Sardar Tara Singh only smiled quietly...
...Peppier Jeep. A new civilian jeep was rolled out by Willys-Overland. Except for a higher hood, the body is little changed. But the four-cylinder engine has been stepped up 20% to 72 h.p. Price: $1,376.90 plus...
...Seoul, the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Maxwell D. Taylor presented Korea's President Syngman Rhee with a 78th-birthday gift: a brand new jeep with blue leather seats, deep blue hubcaps and two sirens. Extra accessory: a special R.O.K. commander-in-chief license plate -two gold dragons gazing into a hibiscus, Korea's national flower...