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They awoke to a clear, bitter-cold Wednesday. Ike put on his old battle jacket-with no rank insigne, but still sporting the flaming-sword shoulder patch of SHAPE -and wool Army trousers, then added a fur-lined Army field parka and a pile hat. First, he flew off in a little L19 Cessna for a look at the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing (where he asked about the capabilities of MIGs), then on to a briefing at the 1st Marine Division's command post, six miles from the front and well within ground-shaking distance of Marine artillery...
...explosion flashed against the walls of Pipefitter Ed Karl's house. Karl threw aside a book he was reading, raced out of his kitchen. When he got to the scene 100-yards away, he found a pile of burning wreckage and a scattered litter of broken bodies. Inside the blazing fuselage he heard a baby wailing...
...Unhappy. Last week, after 6½ years in jail, Denise Delfau, by now an untidy 35, sat in the gloomy Palace of Justice in Paris with 13 male comrades (eleven French, two German), to stand trial on an accumulation of war-crimes charges that filled a foot-high pile of documents. Herr Berger was absent, reportedly now in Germany, offering his specialized services to the Russian intelligence service...
...assigned a big office in the Executive Office Building just two doors down the hall from Lawton's own quarters. There, Dodge took off his grey Homburg, grey suede gloves and dark blue overcoat and settled down behind a big desk on which he placed 1) a pile of celluloid calendars advertising his Detroit Bank, 2) a copy of the Republican platform (which calls for "reduction of expenditures by the elimination of waste and extravagance"). Then he got down to work looking over the voluminous drafts for Harry Truman's budget for fiscal 1954 (which begins next July...
...courses annually rate least popular in the Confidential Guide, a majority of the students damning them as ill-taught, dull and unnecessary. The resentment erupts, forms into a formal protest, spills over into Faculty Committee and the Student Council meetings, and finally becomes another layer on the already ample pile of slag burying the problem. This process takes about four years each round...