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...Pridi worked closely and dangerously with American OSS agents; he earned the wartime regard of U.S. Major General "Wild Bill" Donovan, now the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand. For five months in 1946, Pridi was Thailand's Premier. Forced into exile 15 months later, Pridi left Bangkok in a motor launch borrowed from a good friend in the U.S. embassy. But on arrival in Singapore, Pridi mysteriously disappeared; nothing was seen or heard of him for the next seven years...
...road in Australia, they wallowed in talcum-fine sand or crunched across sharp shale that ripped tires to ribbons. Rocks tore into gas tanks and crumpled fenders. Two cars turned over. A Ford Zephyr plowed into a cow, tossed the animal into the air and caught it on the motor hood. Zephyr and cow were flattened beyond repair...
Thirty-five years ago this month, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker bade Godspeed to a convoy of 63 Army trucks leaving Washington on a daring transcontinental trek to prove that the gasoline engine had really replaced the mule. With the motor train rode a young Army observer, Lieut. Dwight D. Eisenhower. When the trucks crawled into San Francisco on Sept. 5, after 60 days and 6,000 breakdowns, the lieutenant was a confirmed advocate of an adequate, all-weather U.S. road system...
This year 66 million Americans, riding in 22 million automobiles, will take to the highways (most of them this month and next), traveling an average 1,200 miles in eleven vacation days, staying at 50,000 motor courts, and spend $10 billion as they go. The superhighways they will travel are a far cry from the primitive roads that Lieut. Eisenhower and his companions bumped along 35 years ago, but they are still inadequate to the times and to the nation's needs, and growing more so every year. Last week, in recognition of that fact, Dwight Eisenhower proposed...
Some said he had the death wish on him, some that he had taken the hit-run motor incident (TIME, May 3) badly and was deeply ashamed at driving on without stopping. Others saw him as he saw himself, the tragic figure of a savior to whom nobody was grateful. He insisted over and over that only his resignation from Labor's shadow Cabinet at the first mention of a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization had restrained Clement Attlee and indirectly, Anthony Eden, from plunging ahead and bringing on a world war. Stubbornly he reiterated that the rank and file...