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...that the disillusioned young man is speaking in metaphor, that he means his father's evil lives on in the rapacious city all around them. After Martin drops out of sight, McIlvaine begins to investigate and comes to believe the vision could have been true, that a white Municipal Transport stagecoach might actually have carried old Pemberton and other presumed-deceased rich men through the teeming, oblivious streets of Manhattan. McIlvaine imagines Martin's impression of the passengers: "Their heads nodded in unison as the vehicle stopped and started and stopped again in the impacted traffic...
Taylor and his workers swung into action with steel tubing, wood, fabric, paint and wooden wings. By the spring of 1943 they had turned out 750 Waco CG- 4A gliders that would be towed behind C-47 transport planes, the silent landing craft for men and weapons in the farm fields behind the Normandy beaches. One G.I. had just stumbled ashore on D-day when he saw what he thought was a great cloud rising across the Channel and coming toward him. It was the first wave of U.S. gliders bringing in more troops and guns. As the news...
...tentative tour dates will take the band andtheir van, to Toronto, North Dakota, California,Texas, Kentucky, D.C., New York City and back. Asof last week Matt was just starting to make surethe van was in working order to transport the bandand all their equipment across the country...
...sent a memorandum on strategy to the austere, brilliant head of the U.S. Army, General George Marshall. It urged that "the principal target for our first major offensive should be Germany, to be attacked through Western Europe." Eisenhower pointed out that in order to pull together the troops, training, transport and weapons for such a huge effort, the British and American governments would have to commit themselves formally to a cross-Channel attack...
Anger at economic as well as political oppression is growing in slums like the capital's Cite Soleil and in the countryside. Fuel is too expensive, so peasants can no longer afford to transport crops into the city. In some areas, people are reduced to eating boiled green mangoes and seeds. "The military got us into this mess, and they will have to pay for it," says Pierre, a father of five. Relief agencies already feed some 900,000 people, but they claim that red tape from the U.N. and the U.S. is holding up supplies. "They keep talking about...