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...days when the West was young and bandits roamed the land, one great institution held Young America together: the stagecoach. Movie producers through the years have immortalized the long trip west, the peril of Indians and the fear of evil gunmen. Now, in the story of the saga Overland Stage, the saga of the men who made the trip possible has been told...
...Easiest Thing." Thereafter, one of the sights of Mexico was the lusty old brigand and two or three of his henchmen driving daily in his 1920 Overland touring car from Parral to the ranch. One day in 1923, General Motors Dealer Gabriel Chavez and some friends were standing before the agency show window as Pancho rattled past. The men scowled. Some had lost brothers killed by Villa, others remembered womenfolk carried away. Chavez said: "I wonder if anybody will dare let him have...
...Murderer." On the morning of July 20, 1923, Villa was at the wheel of the Overland, joking with his pals and puffing on a corn-shuck cigarette as he drove up to the school corner. The pumpkinseed vendor lurched toward the road, shouted: "Viva Villa!" As the general raised a hand to salute, a ragged volley of rifle bullets riddled his fat body. He and one aide died instantly...
...vast land mass, its self-sustaining peasant economy, its 5,000 miles of friendly Russian border, Red China may withstand limited economic sanctions. It can feed itself, after a fashion. It can maintain lightly armed armies on its own resources. With its arsenals (especially in Manchuria) unbombed and its overland supply lines to Russia open, it can probably prolong indefinitely the kind of war it is waging in Korea. But the U.N. embargo will deny Red China easy access to important warmaking materials, will burden her already strained industrial economy...
...paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regiment floated to earth near Munsan, an armored force 30 miles away was moving to join up with them. With the overland operation was TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert. His report...