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...parachuting and gliding. His first jump came off without incident; his first glider ride characteristically ended in a rousing wreck, from which he jumped clear, ending up bruised in body and dignity, but professionally impressed with the way the ungainly box kite could put down a whole squad, jeep or gun in one place...
...districts not one street was untouched, not a single house undamaged. The outer areas of the city were 85% destroyed, the center 95% rubble. TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson, who went in with the first troops, cabled: "The first impression was that of silence and emptiness. When we stopped the jeep you heard nothing, you saw no movement down the great deserted avenues lined with empty stone boxes. We looked vainly for people. In a city of 700,000 no one now seemed alive. But there were people, perhaps some 120,000 of them. They had gone underground. They live...
...went down the absolutely lonely and deserted street through the ranks of neat and excellent two-story stone buildings, the kind of street that gives you that terribly lonely, naked feeling of snipers and trouble around you, the kind of street out of which you back your jeep at top speed without taking time to turn around...
After reading the issue of TIME (Nov. 20) in which you tell of the jeep-operated Myitkyina Mogaung railroad, I thought you would be interested in seeing a ticket on that important transportation line...
...Stars & Stripes, read that he had been reelected to the Ohio Legislature. Forthwith, O'Neill was sworn in by his commanding officer, though he had to wait until Jan. 26 for orders to come home. By that time he was in Belgium. He raced to Paris in a jeep to catch a plane bound back to the east coast...