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Step Saver. A right-hand-drive Jeep, the first such car to be made in the U.S. in 30 years, was produced by Willys Motors, Inc. It will be used by rural and suburban postmen for easy delivery to roadside mailboxes...
...first mound of corpses by the roadside, caked with dried blood, open mouths frozen in a scream. His sergeant said: ''Don't get shook up. They're just Koreans." Or there were muddy U.S. Army boots protruding awkwardly from under a blanket as a litter jeep bounced down the road from the front. Or in the rain, as he climbed his first Korean hill, there was the glistening poncho stretched over the two men sleeping near the trail-and then he realized that they were asleep forever...
...oatmeal and beans; the only meat they had was venison which Charlie bagged on hunting expeditions. In 1950, his savings gone, Steen moved to Tucson, went to work as a carpenter to get a grubstake. After a year, the Steens sold their trailer for $375, climbed into the family jeep and headed back across the desert for Cisco, where they rented a shack with no plumbing or electricity for $15 a month...
...jeep in which he rode came under fire, one man was killed, and Deane and the other G.I.s crawled to the nearest house. Of the seven men already there, two were dead. One after the other, three more were killed as Communist fire poured in. Deane dashed out to get a jeep started, got a bullet in his hand, four in his thigh. When the Communists charged and captured the house, their first act was to shoot the wounded G.I.s who could not stand. Then the survivors were stripped, kicked, beaten and marched off. At each village, they were turned...
This involves a tricky operation. At this time of the year, the Gila monsters (thick-bodied venomous lizards with skins like orange and black beadwork) avoid the summer heat, come out only at night. So Woodin hunts them at night by jeep. After the sun has set, the monsters like to lie on the pavement, enjoying its lingering warmth. Woodin steps up to the beaded, venomous patient, pins its neck down with a forked stick, and, with practiced skill, slips a specially made, quick-registering clinical thermometer into the beast's rectum...