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...Kyes discovered that a mere 300 accounted for more than half its dollar purchases. Said Kyes to the Pentagon generals: "You've been walking all around this elephant. Let's concentrate on saving money on these 300 items first. We'll worry about the nits and lice later." Among the biggest cost items were aircraft engines. The Air Force found that they had been improved so much that their life expectancy was far greater than realized, hence fewer spare engines were needed. Saving: $500 million...
...Philadelphia press and radio had made restrained mention of the story, a crowd of 50.000 flowed into Fairmount Park. Only a few claimed to see anything unusual, and most of their stories tended to conflict. Some of the visitors left money offerings ($2,300 so far). Park po lice took charge of the money temporarily, not knowing quite what to do with it. Last week, though diminished, crowds were still drifting into the park. The office of Philadelphia's Archbishop John F. O'Hara had no comment to make on the reported vision. But Father Nicholas Lazzaro, whose...
Summing up their torture techniques, Dr. Mayo charged the communists with exploiting not only physical pain, but also intense psychological pressure. He said, "The total picture presented is one of human beings reduced to a status lower than that of animals' filthy, full of lice; festered wounds full of maggots; their sickness regulated to a point just short of death . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish." But always, in return for signing a confession of having conducted germ warfare, the prisoners were promised an end to torture, good treatment...
...total picture presented is one of human beings reduced to a status lower than that of animals; filthy, full of lice, festered wounds full of maggots; their sickness regulated to a point just short of death; unshaven, without haircuts or baths for as much as a year; men in rags, exposed to the elements; fed with carefully measured minimum quantities and lowest quality of food and unsanitary water . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish...
...also a medic, kept records of the deaths he verified in two camps during 20 months of capture. The Chinese took the records away from him, but "I remembered the figures." Exactly 2,538. mostly American. "It was just starvation and disease," said he. "We could always feel the lice crawling over us." Care got better and fewer men died after the Korean truce talks began...