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...Troop Carriers: The Soviets have an amphibious, caterpillar-tracked vehicle that is or soon will be in mass production. The U.S. has only a few such armored troop carriers, its allies virtually none...
Among 977 passengers aboard the 11,828-ton troop transport General Anderson that sailed from Yokohama last week, bound for San Francisco: Army Private William S. Girard, 22, and his Japanese bride Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27. Five months before, wild eagle screams had sounded across the U.S. when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Girard, accused of shooting a Japanese woman in the back on a firing range, would have to stand trial for manslaughter in a Japanese court; from Capitol Hill to Girard's home town of Ottawa, Ill., flag-waving orators, commentators and editorialists deplored handing over...
...other two: the collision of two passenger trains and a troop train at Quintinshill, near Gretna, Scotland, on May 22, 1915, which took the lives of 227; the triple collision of express and commuter trains at Harrow on Oct. 8, 1952 (TIME, Oct. 20, 1952), in which 112 were killed...
Last week Air Force Colonel Dixon J. Arnold, commander of the 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, issued a flat order: plant the pine trees. Two thousand miles from New Zealand, by the next Douglas Globemaster, came 25 pine trees, four to six feet tall. Yielding gracefully, Navy ground crews planted 24 of them the way the Air Force wanted-even though there had never before been a pine tree in all Antarctica. To add insult to this interservice triumph, the airmen posted a sign showing Smokey the Bear pointing at the snow and a 25th tree. Beneath him was the legend...
Three weeks hence, uncertain, often intimidated, frequently bewildered, the Filipino voter will troop to the polls. His trip might be halted by party workers passing out "peso sandwiches"−a couple of crisp bills pressed between two sample ballots. His vote may or may not be counted. As of this week, there was no indication that he would get a proper answer to the question he asked when his beloved Ramon Magsaysay died. The question was and is: "Who will take care...