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After 17 months, Captain Gallery got command of a "jeep" carrier. She had a name to conjure with: Guadalcanal-and "I wouldn't swap my cruise as skipper for all the Admirals' stripes in the Navy." One of the Guadalcanal's few veterans was a chief boatswain's mate, with 15 years' experience. When Gallery asked him what he thought of the crew-80% of whom had never seen salt water before -the chief said: "Cap'n, I'd swap 'em all for a bucket of oily rags." But the kids (average...
Last week three North Koreans brought Kim back to Panmunjom in a jeep and handed him over-although, they said, the eleven-year-old boy was a spy. Except for a runny nose, he was evidently none the worse for his experience. Under the watchful eyes of the North Korean soldiers, Kim recited a little speech, saying that South Koreans had paid him 2,000 won (about 33?) to cross the bridge and spy on Communist troop movements. Later, over a snack of hamburger and cookies, he confirmed what U.N. officers had already guessed-that the Reds had told...
...been terrified by his jeep ride and refused flatly to get into another one. So a U.N. party marched him back to the family hut on foot, a half-hour trek along paddy dikes. Cried the overjoyed father: "Thank you a million times...
...first of the year, Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. expects to bring out a new line of "Aero" passenger cars that will be "very unlike the jeep" or the jeepster. Willys said last week that its three Aero models will be streamlined, with "long, flowing lines and low silhouettes," will have small wheel bases (108 in.) and six-cylinder, go-h.p., high-compression engines which are expected to run up to 35 miles on a gallon of gas. OPS wholesale prices: $1,310, $1,415 and $1.468. If Willys tacks on the standard dealers' markup, Aero retail price will...
...reason for Willys to put out a car "very unlike the jeep" was provided last week by the Texas supreme court. A man injured in a jeep accident claimed double indemnity ($200 a month), allowed by his insurance policy if the accident involved a "pleasure car." The court turned him down. Said the majority, including two World War II veterans: "[The jeep] is a rugged, uncouth vehicle without beauty of line or body, with no suggestion of comfort and obviously intended for hard service rather than pleasure...