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...slaughter." Portugal, too. . . . We drove over the side of a precipice in the fog-only a small rock had saved our car from rolling down the mountainside. In the pitch blackness, a crew of ten workingmen struggled to save our car from destruction, risking their necks on the slippery slope where, at any time, the car might have rolled over on them. Their work triumphantly finished, they refused to accept payment. "We do not take money from Red Cross workers, from Americans," their spokesman said, "for the Americans are our friends. We look to them to save us from being...
Where the desert abruptly broke and dropped down a pitted, 40-foot slope to a lower plain, the scout cars had to stop. But the horses did not. Over the brow of the slope, down the sandy ridge they leaped and slid. All along the ridge poured a river of men & horses, breaking at the edge, spilling downward and riding on. Half a mile beyond, they clustered again. Riflemen dismounted, jerked guns from holsters. Machine-gunners ripped at their packs, vanished into the brush with the guns. Within five minutes the squadron was deployed for battle, the horses had disappeared...
...like the old mounted infantry than traditional lancers, seldom or never fire from horseback, carry not a single sabre. General Richardson's demonstration was a fine sight. But in their mind's eye his visitors could see attack planes, spitting death at the horsemen on the crowded slope, or diving at them during their brief massing before they could dismount and take cover; or enemy scout cars and tanks, crawling across the bondocks toward flowing (and temporarily defenseless) horsemen...
...North Conway a new and attractive building, a chalet-type ski barracks has been erected on the site of the Sunset inn main building which was destroyed by fire last June. This is part of the Eastern Slope...
Taking advantage of the early snow, the association opened its season last Saturday (Dec. 7.). Many slope and parking improvements have been made...