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Oxcarts & Women. The Korean Red army fights and travels light. For basic rations, each soldier gets a packet of rice, seaweed, biscuits, sugar, salt, and two or three cigarettes. The Reds supplement this by foraging. Like the Russian army, they live off the land, transport their supplies on everything from trucks and new Russian jeeps, to oxcarts and bundles carried on the backs of old women...
...milk fats will be shipped overseas separately, whipped together just before mealtime to seem more like bottled milk; canned bread and poundcake are guaranteed to hold their shape and taste for two years in any climate. The old "K" ration even has a new name-an "assault food packet"-and will be fortified by a new variety of canned meats, besides old familiars: crackers, chocolate, cigarettes, matches and toilet paper...
...Northern Presbyterians turned out 880 commissioners strong (plus 1,500 wives, observers, missionaries and others) for a week of meetings in Cincinnati's ornate Taft Auditorium. They soberly polished off an impressive packet of resolutions without hot debate or high jinks. "A wonderful group of people," commented one hotel manager. "Quiet and understanding, to bed early and up early for convention sessions...
...large body of the essays in this volume could be loosely called literary biography. These are brief and charming sketches, some of famous men, Conrad, Hardy, Oliver Goldsmith, and some of obscure figures, known only through a terse diary or a packet of family letters. In all of them, Virginia Woolf exercises her talent of character-drawing. She uses with extraordinary deftness little details about her subjects' lives and periods; her essays sparkle even when the man is very dull...
...back to the car to bring a heavy third suitcase for Mrs. Grant to take on the plane. It was his own rectangular yellow rawhide bag. Only he knew that it was crammed with an ingenious time-bomb lash-up-an alarm clock, a bundle of dry cells, a packet of matches and a folded rubber inner tube filled with gasoline. The clock was set for 2:30 p.m., when United Airlines' flight 258 would be about halfway to San Diego...