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Item Company was sent up to replace battle-worn Baker Company on the hill; the men patched up their prefab bunkers and settled in. Captain Howard ("Spike") Connolly, commanding, set out the bright green battle flag of St. Michael, made for the Marines by Korean orphans. In the next twelve hours, the opposing sides fired off two of the most concentrated artillery and mortar barrages of the war. On about 800 yards of front, the U.S. dropped 32,000 rounds, the Chinese 15,000 rounds. Item Company Marines waited, their eyes strained by sleepless vigilance, endless concussions and flying dust...
...Government . . . has no present intentions of transferring the Ambassador and his staff to Jerusalem." Britain, France, Italy, Turkey and Australia announced that they felt the same way. Their objections disturbed but did not stop the Israelis. Last week, the Holy City resounded to the hammering of workmen putting up prefab huts to house Israel's Foreign Ministry...
...Jackson stays home in Ahmadi, the company's air-conditioned town that looks almost like any U.S. suburb, and raises their ten-year-old daughter in a three-bedroom aluminum prefab. Before returning to the U.S. on leave last spring after two years in Kuwait, Mrs. Jackson had been longing to enjoy 1) a reunion with her relatives, 2) a head of fresh lettuce, 3) a quart of sweet milk, in that order. After a few weeks in the U.S. she found herself longing to return to Kuwait. "We have bridge parties here and there's a woman...
...Fiberglas and canvas shelters. At Fort Richardson, 1,100 men are crammed into a new 500-man barracks; officers and noncoms with families live in squalid hovels, pay extortionate rents. The Air Force had long had to beg Congress for its Alaskan housing money. Now costs are enormous: a prefab house that would cost $9,800 in the U.S. costs $50,000 by the time it is freighted to Alaska from Seattle and erected at the going wages of the territory's high-priced carpenters and plumbers...
...Birnbaum's doorbell rang early one morning and an excited man broke the news. Alfred and Edna Birnbaum, lucky people, had won a $15,000 prefab house raffle ticket. But, they soon found, it takes a heap of money to make a free house a home...