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...smiling crowds spilled everywhere. The sidewalks and street corners of Nagasaki were blocked as far as eye could see with politel^ jostling people, carrying glossy paper Japanese flags, waiting for the first glimpse of Hirohito's aging maroon Packard...
...made friends with the maintenance men, too. On a tip, she hustled to the McDonnell Aircraft plant and told President James McDonnell: "Jim, if you're going to paint, I think we can do the job better than anyone else." She did, concocting special shades christened "McDonnell maroon" and "banshee blue" (after the company's fighter plane...
...unprecedented dual yearbook was created by amalgamation of the '47 and '48 staffs in March 1947, since the two classes were almost unrecognizably intermingled during the war years. Sixteen hundred maroon-and-buff covered copies will be mailed as soon as the books are bound, Coombs said...
Even so, the Maroon and Gold left the field with seven players injured out of a 24-man squad...
...Rome last week, the supporters of democracy displayed courage. For two hours on a cloudy Sunday, 25,000 bronzed, well-fed, well-armed men paraded through Rome. There were red-plumed carabinieri on white horses, steel-helmeted army regulars riding along in maroon Dodge trucks, grim parachutists in steel-grey battle dress, over 100 tanks (including Shermans), scores of armored cars, 80 rumbling pieces of heavy artillery, and even 150 carrier pigeons, traveling in a special truck...