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Until recently, only Andean Indians fished in Titicaca's icy waters, supplementing their meager diet by scooping up the lake's teeming, sardine-sized boga with small hand nets. Then Lieut. Colonel Howard O. Moores Jr., of the U.S. Air Force mission in La Paz, stopped by Titicaca during an Andean fishing trip. He unpacked his gear, assembled his rod and cast out into the lake. Recalls Moores: "As soon as the bait hit the water, the biggest fish I've ever had on a line hit it like a hungry dog grabbing a T-bone steak...
...Capone's son Albert), and got a part-time job cleaning canary cages for a firm which sold birds to local drugstores. He soon found steadier work as a guitarist in a four-piece band incongruously called the Siboney Sextette. The critics agreed on Desi's meager musical gifts. "He was always off-beat," says Theater Owner Carlos Montalban. "But he's an awfully nice guy-a clean-cut Latin...
...Gentlemen," said the major, as he laid his pointer on a ten-foot map of Japan and Korea, "our target for tonight is the rail bridge at Sinhung." Said the captain: "You'll each be carrying forty 500-pound bombs with nose fuses . . . Flak is expected to be meager until the release point. We don't believe it is radar-controlled and we don't think it will be accurate." Said the colonel: "We clobbered them at the Sinanju bridge. I hope we do the same tonight...
...mission: to sell the Moslem states on the idea that Spain, with her ancient cultural ties to Islam, is the natural intermediary between the Middle East and the Western powers. Artajo told leaders that nationalist unrest is just playing into the hands of the Russians. Results so far are meager, but if Franco's missionaries win Moslem converts, the troubled West may be grateful to Madrid. Star of the traveling troupe: Franco's only daughter, pretty, strong-willed Marquesa Carmencita de Villaverde, who received medals, teetered over Jerusalem's cobblestones in high-heeled shoes, and inaugurated...
...Supreme Commander described the military array beyond the Iron Curtain, "deployed and poised as for war." Against the Soviet divisions stood the meager forces of free Europe. To build an adequate defensive shield, two big problems had to be solved: "How to persuade the nations of the free West to allocate afresh their resources in production and manpower," and how to organize strategically...