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...Ralph Bennett of Haversville, Conn., a rifleman in the lead platoon, began firing his Garand when the Chinese attacked. His squad mates saw him go down, like a tackled halfback, under a swarm of enemy. When four husky Chinese began dragging him away, the other Americans held their fire for fear of hitting their own man. But Bennett wrenched free, knocked one Chinese down, and ran for his own outfit, with several Reds in hot pursuit. Bennett yelled for covering fire, and a U.S. machine gunner dropped the Chinese who were chasing him. Five yards from the shelter...
...have-nots eyed the haves with as much jealousy and hunger as ever a swarm of 18th century peasants peered through the bars of the Monseigneur's iron fence. Just as the peasants' eyes followed the fresh beefsteak from the hands of the leering Monseigneur into the jaws of his dogs, so the have-nots watched the haves promenade their lovelies on Mount Auburn Street...
That kind of good news travels fast. Soon a swarm of handout seekers buzzed around him, ten visitors a day from outlying districts, "a thousand letters a day from people all over France, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium." The abbé lit out for Paris, partly to escape, partly to pick up his fat check and two second-hand Citroens for 1,500,000 francs...
Marriages & Mortgages. Despite all this, most home builders think the potential demand far from satisfied. They think that if credit restrictions are relaxed, as they hope they may be soon, buyers will swarm back into the market. They are also hopeful that mortgage money will become plentiful again-and it looks as if it will. One reason: savings accounts are rising abnormally, and since interest rates paid on them are also going up, banks will have to put the money to work...
Dartmouth is cracking down on the hordes of "free loaders" from Harvard, Yale, and other schools that swarm over the Hanover campus during big weekends...