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Strapped to a perch atop the radiator of one of the jeeps was a man with a long wooden lance. As the jeep caught up, he rammed the lance against the bull's flank, knocking him hoof over hide. All eyes in the jeeps were trained on the black bull, intent on his slightest move...
...Poised. Before the triumphal entry, the local folk spent long hours sprucing up the vicinity. Said an amazed G.I. jeep driver, noting that old holes in the road near Nagasaki had been filled in: "I hope this guy comes here more often. This is the first comfortable ride I've had." Schoolchildren swept streets and sidewalks with small brooms hours before the Emperor was scheduled to pass. This practice -; led Japanese Communists and many Americans to speak of Hirohito as hoki san, or "the broom...
...troops bade their commander a military farewell. On the vast parade field at Grafenwohr, once a training ground for Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, 11,000 U.S. soldiers snapped and wheeled through a 90-minute review. A battery of 105-mm. guns barked a 17-gun salute. From a jeep the 52-year-old general stood stiffly and watched the display, a hint of tears in his eyes. Overhead, in a brilliant, cloudless sky, 60 Thunderbolt fighters formed a gigantic C-L-A-Y as they roared past, and then, joined by whooshing F80 jet fighters, they swept low over...
Other new scientific notes: ¶ A surveying gadget built into two small boxes mounted on a trailer (to be pulled by a car or jeep), has been developed by the Sun Oil Co. Starting from a known elevation, an odometer records distance traveled. A pendulum indicates up & down grades, and an electronic calculator works out, by trigonometry, net changes in altitude. Valuable in oil prospecting, the apparatus enables height surveyors to work three times as fast as they could by rod sighting, saves them from such occupational hazards as sunstroke and frostbite. ¶An electronic I.F.F. (identification, friend...
...programme" began before a rapidly-growing crowd at 2 p.m. as the Lampoon force of pink-shirted, black-helmeted militia armed with wooden rifles and backed up by a jeep bearing a beer keg set off on a demonstration march around Lowell and the Block-house...