Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help. But he came back with pictures that are an eloquent one-man record of World War II. Last week, in Slightly Out of Focus (Henry Holt, 243 pp., $3.50), he assembled an album of the best of them. It opens with a shot of the convoy that he rode to Britain in 1942, and closes with the young machine-gunner he snapped on an open balcony in Leipzig, seconds before the boy was shot between the eyes. ("The last day, some of the best ones die. But those alive will fast forget...
...world's second highest mountain range,*lucky latinos with time & money were hard at work at winter sports. Chilean students and bank clerks by the hundreds dashed off in buses and open trucks for Sundays at Farellones, a village of ski-club huts within sight of Santiago. Argentines rode the ski tow to the top of Vermont-like foothills around the lake town of Bariloche. Luckiest of all were those who bucked the drifts to Portillo, 9,300 feet high and right in the ribs of the Andes...
...Novices rode a ski tow to take their first headers on a broad, snow-padded slope within easy stretcher-bearing distance of the hotel. But Kanonen (experts), led by Skimaster Allais, climbed by ski to the Christ of the Andes for a Schuss of six glorious miles tc Portillo. Or they took a thundering trail three precipitous miles to Juncal where railway handcars pumped them back to Portillo...
...clever Tom Clinch, while the rabble was bawling, Rode stately through Holborn to die at his calling, He stopt at the George for a bottle of sack, And promis'd to pay for it when he came back...
...while, Roosevelt rode in an armored car that had originally belonged to Al Capone. Later, improved models were carried (on presidential tours) in an oversized baggage car that had once hauled animals for Barnum & Bailey's circus. Few possibilities were overlooked by the Presidential Detail: F.D.R.'s special Pullman was watertight and equipped with submarine escape hatches...