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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been around to photograph the whole contraption. As far as Burke knows, however, the Harvard Square booth is the only one of its kind in the country; a similar unit in Central Square closed down last year. Outside of its traffic control duties, the booth attracts a clamoring stream of information seekers. Burke is constantly assailed by people requiring guidance of all kinds. He is now able to direct traffic by instinct as he answers these questions; "but it was hard as hell at first," he concedes...
...year-old ex-Under Secretary of State, bareheaded and wearing a heavy fur coat, prostrate beside a lonesome road. His face had been scratched by briers, but there was no sign that he had been attacked. His clothes were frozen to his body; apparently he had fallen into a stream, stumbled out and collapsed a little distance beyond. He had lain there some eight hours before he was found...
...defend the Yangtze," an old Chinese proverb runs, "you must defend the Huai." While Nationalist attention was focused north of the Huai last week, two of Communist General Chen Yi's agile columns (about 30,000 men) slipped over the muddy stream, struck at the Nationalist rear. At points less than 60 miles from Nanking the raiders tore up several sections of the government's single-track rail line to the front. Temporarily, at least, all land communications were cut between the capital and its last effective defense force...
...days of suspense, the Suchow commanders did not budge. Then the evacuation began. Along both sides of Suchow's main street -a broad expanse of cobblestones bisected by a barren dirt parkway-yellow-uniformed soldiers half enveloped in a thin cloud of dust tramped in an endless stream. At the end of each straggling company marched a soldier with a triangular red or blue pennant; at the rear, donkeys, loaded with heavy machine guns, plodded stiff-legged over the rough street. Trucks piled with bundles and crates swirled by. "So many troops," said a fat, black-gowned merchant, standing...
Early Saturday morning Shanghai woke to the scream of ambulances carrying the injured to hospitals. Along Shanghai's waterfront, which the Kiangya had left only the afternoon before, hearses bearing bodies picked their way through a neverending stream of coolies pushing carts piled high with crates, boxes, suitcases of still more refugees frantically evacuating their belongings and fleeing the city...