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German Cornejo, 52-year-old Mexican farm worker, heard there might be some kind of work for him across the border. He loaded relatives and friends into his truck and from Sonoyta lightheartedly set forth. Nineteen miles from San Luis the truck's wheels sank into the sand, stuck fast...
...Cornejo's daughter, Socorro. A man, Francisco Flores, was alive, lying under a bush. He had cut one wrist, tried to slake his thirst with his own blood. These two were the only survivors. Some of the others had stumbled for miles across the sand, looking for water. Nine miles off, Tomas Ponce had scratched on border monument No. 201: "Dying of thirst, hungry." Dead was lighthearted German Cornejo. Dead was his 17-year-old son Rafael, who, desperate with suffering, had slashed his own throat...
Every night when the wind was not kicking up a sand, Australian, New Zealand and Indian patrols crept out from the circle of the strong points which the Eyeties had built for their defense of Tobruk. They were armed with tommy guns, grenades and bayonets. Three or four miles out they came on Italian concentrations, inched within lobbing distance, then let fly. The Italians, clumsy at patrolling and clumsier at countering it, suffered mean casualties...
...curving coast of North Carolina, where the New River bites through a sweeping scimitar of sand and spills into the Atlantic, a new chapter was started last week in the U.S.'s book of military tactics. It was a chapter on whose subject Germany had already written a terrifying five-foot shelf: cooperation under a single command of combat arms in battle...
...cool reception from the home folks. For this earnest, rumpled newspaperman whom Republican Governor Harold Stassen chose last year to take the place of the late Senator Ernest Lundeen is an ardent crusader for President Roosevelt's foreign policy. And for over 25 years Minnesota has been a sand pile of isolationism...