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...this command post. One of the field telephones rings, an officer of the staff picks it up, listens a moment and says, "Oh, Christ, there's a column of refugees, three or four hundred of them, coming right down on B company." A major in the command tent says to the regimental commander, "Don't let them through...
...their brethren busy cooking and serving meals in batches of 20,000, giving first aid to the heat-prostrated, returning lost children, painting signs, running a post office and arranging transportation. At night hundreds of them trekked back across the Hudson River to a 90-acre tent and trailer camp at New Market, N.J., where another 9,000 had listened in over loudspeakers. And in between times, they managed to give New Yorkers the impression that there was a Witness on nearly every street corner, cheerfully hawking his sect's two periodicals, The Watchtower and Awake...
...other day I saw one exhausted L-5 pilot, after eleven straight hours over enemy territory, stagger to his tent and flop on a cot. A moment later his commanding officer shook him and said: "We've got a kid over here shot through the throat. We've got to get him to Taegu. Can you keep awake?" The pilot struggled to his feet and muttered: "Litter case? I'm awake." He walked over to his plane and looked in at an ivory-faced boy with a tube dangling from his throat. The pilot stepped...
...visits, Williams often had to syringe the sinuses of his charges, inoculate them against anthrax, and doctor them generally. He once spent three weeks treating an elephant called Ma Kyaw ("Miss Smooth") for some tiger-claw gouges on her back. Two months later, Williams was having tea outside his tent when Ma Kyaw passed by. Hearing his voice, she turned around, came up to his camp table, sat down, and "leant right over towards me so as to show me her back." That afternoon at the inspection, Williams found out why: one of Ma Kyaw's wounds still pained...
...magic of television; city Scouts complained to 34 aid stations of bumps, sprains and poison ivy. To Louisiana Scouts, the British served tea. Other Southerners saw a kilted Scot amiably explaining cricket to a khaki-clad young Negro. Austrians made music with mandolins; bagpipes whined shrilly from a pup tent...