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...suddenly shouted, "Litter case!" Two soldiers walked carefully into the tent, laid a stretcher on packing cases in the cone of light from a spotlight. The man on the stretcher moaned faintly. A field dressing lay across his eyes. His face was dirty, bearded, bloody. A doctor in an undershirt looked at the medical sergeant across the stretcher and shook his head in pity. Then he leaned over the wounded man and began gently to remove the field dressing...
...altered. Picked up on a deportation order, he was whisked across the border before dawn one morning by a mysterious convoy of Mexican secret service agents and deposited at the U.S. border station in Laredo, Texas. There, dumpy, dark-eyed Morton Sobell, 33, his black hair disheveled and his undershirt ballooning from his trousers, was arrested by waiting agents of the FBI as a spy for the Soviet Union...
...first night at Taegu airfield, but came back to Pohang to fight again the next day. After delays due to a broken bridge and enemy ambushes, a U.S. armored rescue force arrived, led by Brigadier General J. Sladen Bradley, a tough fighter who rides into battle in his undershirt. But when Bradley got there, the Reds were in the town of Pohang, a burning ruin. Southeast of the town, ground crews, clerks and cooks were still defending the airstrip against the enemy. This week the Air Force evacuated its planes. The loss of the field-perhaps only temporary...
Comfortably dressed in undershirt and shorts, the Supreme Bishop was drinking ice-cold beer in his Manila house when the official word was brought to him: the Manila Court of the First Instance had at last declared him head of the Philippine Independent Church. Tall, chain-smoking Bishop Isabelo de los Reyes promptly sent out a directive calling for a Supreme Council of Bishops in July to set about making Aglipayanism the national church of the Philippines...
Unearthed: an Undershirt. While the bulldozers outside delved into the future, Harvard librarians inside had been digging up their past. In a series of Harvard Library Bulletins (the third issue is now in the works), its staff has begun to tell the story of the second largest* library in the U.S. They unearthed such unsuspected Harvardiana as Henry Adams' course notes and one of ex-President Henry Dunster's undershirts...