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...must give the people an example of poverty, misery and denial," he sometimes adjures his disciples, and off he plods, ostentatiously, through the villages, with a knapsack on his back. Ho Chi Minh works from 16 to 18 hours a day, usually with a jacket slung across his shoulders as if he were perpetually cold...
...Goan cops locked up their guardhouse, slung their rifles on their shoulders and trudged along after the liberators. The dog followed. Soaked to the skin, the strange procession walked on through the deserted countryside (the Portuguese had evacuated people from villages near the border, to prevent demonstrations). The weary cops were lagging behind when suddenly the marchers dived off the road into the thick jungle. Baffled, the cops argued among themselves, and decided not to give chase...
...high-wing, single-engined Cessna monoplane that could fly at 120-140 m.p.h., watched sales climb back to $14 million in 1948. When Korea hit, Cessna's civilian planes became L19 artillery spotters. Observers used L-19s to spot camouflaged tanks hidden from 600-m.p.h. jets. Signal Corpsmen slung rolls of wire beside the wings, hedgehopped over the hills laying communications at 70 m.p.h. When President Eisenhower visited Korea, he flew to the front in a Cessna...
...most exciting thing about Boeing's spectacular course last week was a brand-new airplane that was rolled out for its preflight tests-a big, sleek, new job painted a rich yellow and chocolate brown, with sharply swept-back wings and four huge jet engines slung underneath...
...opponents fled to asylum in foreign embassies; the Salvadorans had barely put 18 such guests on a departing airliner when twelve more showed up. Arbenz clamped on a state of emergency, drastically censored the press and cables. Secret police in black berets drifted everywhere; cops with rifles slung over their backs patrolled the streets on bicycles. The jails filled up with prisoners...