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...Milton Bracker to convey their uncensored stories to Panama, where they could be filed. The next day Dozier found that he could get out on an Army plane to Panama himself. With Robert Shellaby, of the Christian Science Monitor, he "crawled, ran and sneaked to the embassy and, by jeep and bus, guarded by two soldiers, dashed to the airport...
...from the West. He still likes to sleep outdoors (he is married, expecting a child), but is now pestered by reporters who ask him about his song, his beard, and what yoga means. He is about to give up his bicycle for a car-something hard-seated like a jeep...
...much good these helpful hints accomplished was demonstrated one day last week when Russian soldiers seized a middle-aged woman at 9 a.m., at one of Vienna's busiest intersections. She struggled desperately as she was pulled into the Russian jeep. To establish her identity, she tossed her handbag to a bewildered Austrian policeman. The Russians patiently stopped their jeep, and took the handbag from the policeman. Then they drove off with the woman...
...Light. The Federal Trade Commission ordered Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. to stop advertising that it had created or designed the "jeep." Said FTC: although Willys-Overland "made an outstanding contribution in its powerful engine as well as in other features of the vehicle," the credit belonged jointly to four companies-Willys-Overland, American Bantam Car Co., Ford Motor Co., Spicer Manufacturing Co. (now Dana Corp.)-and the Army...
...dreamed up the "weasel," the tracked, amphibious jeep that wallowed through mud from Italy to the Pacific. Pyke first wanted his weasels built to jump sideways so they could avoid dive bombers. His plan to combat U-boats in the North Atlantic burgeoned into the Habakkuk Project.* It called for a fleet of 2,000-ft. iceberg aircraft carriers built of Pykrete (40-foot-thick ice blocks reinforced with wood pulp). This idea fascinated Winston Churchill; a working model was laboriously constructed in Canada's Lake Patricia, but the project was abandoned as Allied successes against U-boats ended...