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...Queen Mary will stay in the U.S. transport service, but Elizabeth and Aquitania had other obligations, which should be understood by U.S. troops. British and Canadian soldiers want to be sped home, too. The Combined Chiefs of Staff, reassigning the two ships, decided it was time to give them a chance...
...native bearers. Scores of volunteers-sturdy, brown-bodied Igorot women -eagerly picked up wheels, engines and other parts, carried them along paths which at one point soared 2,000 feet above the road. On the other side of the chasm the jeeps were reassembled, and Fraser's men sped after the Japs. The Igorot women stayed behind to help the engineers rebuild the road...
...that the U.S., Russia and Britain no longer had a common enemy, they clearly could not continue at the high level of teamwork that had sped the military disintegration of Germany. As a mattr of fact, working out the problem of a certain flight of stairs at Potsdam-where British bombers had blasted a way for Russian foot soldiers-proved harder than the most complicated of joint military operations...
...station platform stood some 3,000 Argentines. As Ambassador Braden stepped off the train, they waved U.S. flags, shouted: "Viva Braden, viva U.S., viva liberty, democracy, elections!" Then the crowd swept up the hefty Ambassador, wafted his 300 Ibs. to a waiting Embassy car. Not until Braden had sped away, did the Buenos Aires police step in with their nightsticks, start cracking demonstrators' heads...
Married. Jinx Falkenburg, 26, alluring camera target whose magazine-cover face & figure sped her up the model-to-movies path (Cover Girl); and A.A.F. Lieut...