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...backdrops, the French are on safe ground when on home ground, but their Louis XVI version of events on the American side is too fanciful to swallow. The only thing to do is to repay them in kind -perhaps a movie about Black Jack Pershing, with troupes of saucy mam'zelles following behind the tanks and kissing doughboys behind the hedgerows while France is being saved by the A.E.F. But mushoor, it's been done...
...Sasebo's workers with daily pep talks, he diversified the company into diesel engines, bridges and steel tanks. He capitalized aggressively on the demand for supertankers created by the 1956 Suez crisis. Last July, Sasebo launched the world's biggest tanker, the 131,000-ton Nissho Mam, and last month it got an order for two 95,000-ton tankers from Socony Mobil. Sasebo, which earned $1,030,000 on sales of $30 million in 1961, is now Japan's leading builder of ships for export...
Inside the probe, a built-in timer had been programmed to turn on the mam instruments at the proper time. But that time passed, and no report of action came over the probe's radio voice. Then, 3 hr. 20 mins later, the built-in alarm clock got I second chance. But this time also it failed to awake the probe's instruments...
...they married, she a lady's maid in Liverpool. He failed his way through a variety of tiny enterprises, including-for nine of Emlyn's formative years-the operation of a country pub. Dad was at home on either side of a bar, beery, convivial and feckless. Mam was "conventional to the point of defeatism, shy of strangers and painfully conscious of the immorality of spending one penny unless there was a halfpenny behind it." Neither of them was more than barely literate. Welsh was their language; Emlyn hardly heard an English word until...
Perennially jobless Dad, without a tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...