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Just ahead of the winter freeze-up, the broad-bottomed barges cast off from Nome's weather-beaten docks and tagged southward behind their tugs toward the Bering Sea. Townsmen ashore watched the cargoes of Air Force trucks, black oil drums and crated airplane parts disappear into the blue distance. The Air Force was leaving Nome, lock, stock & barrel. On the plains east of the city, Marks Air Force Base-once the hub of several satellite fields and home for 10.000 World War II troops-was deserted save for its housekeepers and the solitary comings & goings of commercial airliners...
...more precise statement would be that the Huks were taking the initiative early this year, and are not taking it now. This is literally all the authorities know. The rest is hidden behind a wall of silence-the silence of thousands upon thousands of peasants and field workers and townsmen, who, from fear or from loyalty, almost never tell what they hear from "The Outside...
...fearlessly risked his life and career to defend them against the charge of murdering five colonists in cold blood. By hard lawyer logic Adams forced the jury to acquit all except two, who were found guilty of manslaughter. Meanwhile, despite the side he had taken in the case, his townsmen elected him as representative to the legislature, even though he did not bother to campaign...
...sedate Brigham City, Utah (pop. 6,000) first heard the news, there was consternation in town. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs had decided to take over an abandoned Army hospital on the southern edge of Brigham City as a school for several hundred Navajo children from Arizona. Some townsmen had visions of a horde of adolescent savages. Others could see their orderly little Mormon community ringed by a fringe of tepees...
...plug hat and lavender gloves appeared driving a span of oxen down the dusty main street. The newcomer drove expertly, shouting his commands in Latin, until finally and inevitably he came to a stop outside Uncle Dick Wootton's saloon and general store. His first statement to the townsmen was in English, not Latin, though they would have understood it in any tongue. It was: "Set 'em up. The drinks...