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...Soft Touch. That is what Abbé Pierre has been trying to do for a long time. The fifth of eight children of a wealthy Lyons silk manufacturer, Henri Antoine Grouès at 18 signed his inheritance over to charity and entered a Capuchin monastery. Eight years later tuberculosis forced him to give up the rigors of monastic life, and he was assigned as a secular priest to the diocese of Grenoble...
...where grey U.S. LSTs waited to take them to Formosa, the P.W.s got a traditional Chinese celebration. Dancers cavorted on stilts, and performed the ancient lion dance, in honor of the great Chinese victory against the explainers; they balanced tiny children atop long poles; they gave the P.W.s fine silk scarves and paper garlands. Then the P.W.s patted the children goodbye, cast farewell glances at the girls in the swirling skirts, and moved off toward the waiting LSTs. Starting next morning, the 14,000 sailed for a new life on Formosa. They seemed determined to return to the mainland...
...Assault. Warmly bundled in many layered, lightweight clothes and wearing three pairs of gloves (silk, wool or down, and windbreaking cotton), the team started plodding up the mountain. They were accompanied by Sherpa porters, carrying tents, sleeping bags, mattresses, food, cooking equipment and fuel. Progressively higher camps were established as the men slowly accustomed themselves to high altitudes, became used to oxygen masks, and were molded into the unity of a smoothly meshed team...
...explanation tents at Panmunjom. Their Chinese P.W. uniforms.betrayed their long years of captivity; they were faded by constant washing to a light robin's egg blue. Their minds, too, had been effectively laundered. All 130 refused to go back to South Korea, including four girl P.W.s in silk jackets and flowing skirts, who did folk dances as they waited their turn in the cold...
Great Highway. More significantly for Venezuela's economy, Pérez Jiménez snipped a silk ribbon to open the spectacular new motor speedway running from mountain-girdled Caracas to the sea. The journey to the capital from its seaport, La Guaira, and the neighboring airport Maiquetia, has traditionally been a fatiguing, sometimes hair-raising ride over an insane 18½-mile highway with 311 curves. The $60 million, four-lane autopista is Venezuela's most daring piece of engineering. It sweeps up to the capital in 10½ miles, tunneling mountains and leaping deep chasms...