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Anent Royal Dutch's Sir Henri Deterding, May 9: when the Winkler County, Texas oil gushers, in the midst of the desert of Texas, hit the headlines across the world in the '20s with "Oil, 10? a barrel, water $1," I drove across the trackless sand with tires deflated toward two men near a Dodge coupé with a broken axle and mired in gypsum sand up to the running boards. One was an unshaven, booted, leather-jacketed oilfield-lease hound named Allen; the other, Sir Henri Deterding, immaculately dressed in English tweeds, with a pipe...
...ensuing flare-up, one police car had its license plates and windshield wiper taken, and three of its tires deflated. A trackless trolley attempting to get through the Square had its trolley poles removed by students; and more than 50 policemen answered calls to the Square to quell hand-to-hand fighting...
...Battle for Leyte Gulf, which flamed into the headlines 15 years ago this week. It was the Japanese Empire's last stand. Never had a sea battle's stakes been so high, never so many warships involved, never such fierce fighting over such a vast expanse of trackless ocean. It was in fact four great battles, waged with every known naval weapon, majestic in its sweep, but complex and even controversial in its detail. Both the sense of sweep and the drama of detail are to be found in color maps with accompanying text...
Like a seismograph recording an earthquake in trackless ocean depths, Radio Peking last week revealed a major upheaval in the government of Red China. In the greatest purge in four years, some 25 vice ministers and other senior officials were fired from their jobs. The causes of the shakeup, though not divulged by Peking, seemed clear: the humiliating failure of "the great leap forward," the enforced revision of phony production statistics (TIME, Sept. 7), popular antipathy to the vaunted rural communes, and growing strain between Red China's Communist Party and army...
...first Costa Rica-based rebel C46 landed 40 men, armed with 7-mm. Mauser rifles and automatic weapons, in a pasture 90 miles east of Managua. There they met 60 allies leading pack mules and horses and headed into trackless jungle to the east. The second C46 landed heavily in a soggy field 65 miles northeast of Managua, was burned by the 35 troops it carried when a damaged landing gear prevented takeoff. When a twelve-man foot patrol of Tachito's national guard arrived to examine the plane's remains, the rebels ambushed the soldiers...