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...Mine-Mill invasion of the uranium fields was carried off by typical Communist methods. Last February one of Murphy's organizers, posing first as a mining official and later as a newspaper reporter, arrived in Uranium City. Living in a shack tent, he worked among the miners in the evenings and on weekends, promising them more pay, better bunks, shorter hours. An anti-Communist C.I.O. union tried to stem the Mine-Mill drive. Mine-Mill "put the case in terms of pork chops," said a government labor official. "The [other fellows] talked vaguely." Before long, the anti-Communists withdrew...
...California's Monterey Peninsula, the meadows of golden poppies and blue lupine beckoned. It was Easter Sunday, and in the spirit of the day Jerry Edgmon, n, and his kid brother David, 9, left the tent where they lived with their migrant family, and started to pick some flowers for their mother. With their mongrel dog, Rocky, frisking beside them, the boys wandered across some dunes and crossed under a sagging, rusted barbed-wire fence...
...spectators, and the fact that many of them knew very little about rowing seemed to make no difference. Those who weren't local inhabitants on an excursion to satisfy their curiosity were Princeton men, decked out in orange pants or yellow coats and whooping it up around the Princeton tent. (There was no Harvard tent at all.) One factor that the W.R.A. had not foreseen was the tide. In the morning the river rose and rose and finally filled all the $2.50 box seats with a foot of water, but this problem did not discourage the hardier spectators. They just...
...soldier across the line was Private Carl W. Kirchenhausen of New York City, who was drafted two years ago, and whose father [now dead] had fled from Hitler's Germany to New York. He faced a battery of cameras with dull, bloodshot eyes, then ducked into the reception tent. Once there, he said stolidly: "I'm glad it came true...
...Equivalent to a diocese. Mormons think of their church as a giant tent with stakes driven into the ground all over the world...