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Into the Muck. "We're going to the boondocks," the boots muttered to each other in the darkness. The column snaked in a northerly direction across Rifle Range Baker toward Ribbon Creek, a murky, treacherous tidal stream that ranges from 100 ft. wide and 4 ft. deep at low tide to 250 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep at high tide. To reach the stream, McKeon had to lead his men across a 100 ft. border of deep black mud carpeted by yard-high swamp grass. He did not hesitate, although he later admitted that he had "never been...
...Pedro and his wife were not bothered, but the ouster of her children so outraged Senora Arcaya that she took to spending hours on the telephone denouncing the dictator to her society friends. One Christmas the elder Arcayas found their phone, ripped out and tied with a red ribbon, on the doorstep...
...Clements. Morton's hopes were based on the feud between Clements and Governor "Happy" Chandler (TIME. Feb. 20) and on the possibility that Dwight Eisenhower may lead the Republican ticket this year. Whether Ike runs or not, he got Morton off to a running start with a blue-ribbon resignation-acceptance letter. Wrote Ike: "You have not only earned the profound respect of your colleagues throughout the Executive Branch, you have confirmed the high regard of those members of Congress with whom you served...
...slipped into the White House one day last week and, for "compelling personal and family reasons," asked the President to set a date for his resignation. They agreed on April 1, and while Hughes ducked out for a week's rest in Boston, the President released a blue-ribbon letter of "deepest regret." He wrote: "You should take vast pride in the balanced budgets now at hand . . ." When he leaves Government service, 59-year-old Hughes intends to take a six-month vacation, is uncertain what he will do thereafter...
...France travelers are treated with true Gallic grace, and the stewards provide something for everybody - straw slippers and chopsticks on flights to Japan, kosher and Moslem diets for Near East travelers, fine and fattening French foods on the blue-ribbon routes. Last year alone, Air France served 500,000 bottles of wine aloft, including champagne, provided on request in lieu of breakfast orange juice on some de luxe runs...