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...afternoon last week, a Russian lieutenant, a rifle slung over his shoulder. drove a motorcycle up the street. He was young, short and fairly handsome except for two scars, one on each side of his face, which looked as if they had been made by a single bullet. Dozens of eyes peering through curtained windows saw the Russian walk unsteadily up the steps and enter Frau Lehrte's house. Soon he walked down the steps and into a nearby orchard, where he leaned wearily against an apple tree: the widow Lehrte was not home, and the Russian intended...
Dyaks unload their sleeping mats and haversacks from the trucks. Around each man's waist was slung the parang with which his forefathers had chopped off enemy heads before the British stamped the custom out. Knots of hair hung from many hilts, but the main decoration consisted of tassels of pheasant feathers dangling from their sheaths. Charms made of wild boar or crocodile teeth hung from their waists. Some displayed intricate patterns tattooed on throat and chest; a few sported Hollywood-style sunglasses. The headman of the group, one Jabu, unsheathed his parang. "It's more than...
...There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus in the anchorage. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy (". . . His father's sword he has girded on, and his wild harp slung behind...
...Dearborn this week, Benson Ford took his turn at the family steering wheel. Out of his Lincoln-Mercury Motor Division he rolled two sleek new low-slung cars-the 1949 model Lincolns. The Ford Motor Co., first of the Big Three to make radical body changes in all its cars, had spent $90 million doing it. Ben Ford's Lincolns were the first models unwrapped...
...government man with the small box slung over his shoulder paced slowly to and fro, holding his rodlike detector close to the ground and listening to the sounds in his earphones: rhythmic clicks, five to 50 a minute, depending on the minerals under foot. As he walked, the clicking sped up, whirred into a roar. The man stopped, noted down the location. He had detected a deposit of the world's most coveted mineral: uranium ore, chief source of atomic energy...