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...more than a month Haitians have been reeling under one such outpouring after another of Candidate Magloire's official hospitality. In addition to buying movies, drinks and picnic suppers for everybody, the tall, handsome colonel has also wooed the upper crust with balls and brunches in the best hotels, the masses with sandwiches tossed from army trucks...
Happily cast as a ghoulish small-town scamp, Wayne accidentally kills his unpopular Uncle Joe on a family picnic and, fearing a murder charge, talks the family into burying him secretly near by. When he learns that the dead man carried a $10,000 life insurance policy (double indemnity for accidents), he hopefully begins identifying a random lot of corpses as Uncle Joe. Twice balked by insurance investigators, once in the midst of a mock-solemn funeral service full of twittering canaries, Wayne finally decides to dig up Uncle Joe and put him where he can do some good...
After the Marines arrived, the U.S. attack got going again. In the bloody battle for their first ridge (see box), the Marines suffered casualties which made their ordeal of the previous week seem a picnic by contrast. But the Marines won the ridge, and after that the enemy broke under ferocious air strafing. The first powerful push of the infantry task force under General Church carried three miles and almost cut the Red bridgehead in two. Great swarms of Reds began trying to get back across the river by any possible means: on rafts, over the girders of demolished bridges...
...Picnic: A temporary claim staked out near the largest and hungriest ant colony within 15 miles...
...amazing physical performance for a man of 66, and he seemed to enjoy every minute of it as heartily as a youngster at his first picnic...