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...September's end it was clear to Red China that there would be no cheap victory at Quemoy. On Oct. 6 the Communists declared their first cease-fire-"out of humanitarian considerations," as they put it. The Nationalists coolly used the letup to unload tens of thousands of tons on Quemoy. On Oct. 20 the Communists canceled the ceasefire, laid down erratic shellfire until Nov. 3, when they put down about 40,000 shells in a bombardment that had so little military meaning that U.S. observers conclude it must have been aimed at U.S. voters...
Faster Baggage Loading. All luggage for one city will be placed in large protective plastic containers that are hoisted automatically into the jet's belly, enabling workers to load-and unload-twice as much baggage in the same time. "Right now," says an American executive, "we are still loading baggage on planes the same way they loaded Cleopatra's barge...
...great Gygian load, the excrescence of the social organism of Concord, will be there and it certainly can't be wished away. The dilemma arises: should the citizens unload their perpetual clutter within the sight and smell of their progeny, making them conscious early of the great and ineluctable junk that fills the world? Or should the youth be saved, and instead men's trash fill smooth the rugged face of old New England tradition...
...rise and fall was Writer Erich Kuby, 48. He was interested not so much in Rosie the prostitute, he explained, as in "Rosie, medicine for our big businessmen, who didn't visit her because she was so good in bed or so beautiful, but because they could unload their troubles, because she fed their ego, because she gave content to their empty lives...
...within three miles of Quemoy in a defiant challenge to the Red Chinese. Red torpedo boats, which had broken up Nationalist convoys, are nowhere in sight. From the bridge of the cruiser Helena, the Seventh Fleet's Vice Admiral Roland Wallace Beakley watches grimly as two Nationalist LSMs unload 300 tons of ammunition and other supplies on Shatou Beach. Nothing happens. Several times U.S. ra-darmen see blips easing out toward the convoy from Red jet bases on the mainland, but each time, as if pulled by invisible strings, the blips finally scoot back inland. The U.S. seems...