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...Villa by the Lake. The team found a good hideout, a vacant, 22-room villa, screened by trees on the west shore of Lake Orta. From there, the Chrysler mission asked Siena for its first airdrop. Two Army C-47s flew over, dumped out cascades of mortars, rifles, Tommy guns and ammunition. Holohan had arranged that this first drop was to go to nonCommunists. Instead, the Communists tried to grab the arms. Holohan was furious, but agreed to a meeting with the Red leader. The man he faced was Vincenzo Moscatelli, now a member of the Italian Senate...
Czechoslovakia. Thousands are being deported from Prague, Brno and Bratis lava. A new town is being built near the Soviet border, to accommodate deported workers intended for the nearby copper mines. Homes left vacant by the deported are filled up with "essential workers," i.e., young Communists with technical skills wanted for industry, particularly arma ments. Four army generals, accused of plotting against the Red regime, have been arrested...
Emir Hussein of Jordan, 15, slender, bookwormish grandson of King Abdullah and likeliest to succeed to Abdullah's vacant throne. A lonely, taciturn adolescent who dislikes sports, he differs strikingly from his fun-loving cousin, Iraq's Feisal. Despite his captain's commission in the Jordan army, Hussein prefers collecting guns to firing them. He is a bright student at Victoria College, a British school in Alexandria, Egypt, but hates the British, hopes eventually to chuck them out of Jordan...
...business. Although few big city hotels have been built in the U.S. in the last eleven years, motels and motor courts have mushroomed from 13,521 in 1939 to more than 30,000 in 1950. Said the American Automobile Association: "Everybody who has a pile of bricks and a vacant lot puts up a motel." Often the business consists only of a man & wife who have invested their savings in a few cabins, built up a comfortable living within a few years. The average income of a U.S. motel operator last year was $14,862; all motels grossed...
...unused basement storeroom was the site chosen for the religious services. Eliot House was selected because it had vacant space where the planned squash courts were not completed. The other Houses all have squash or other activities using their basements...