Word: wrench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the South Indian state of Andhra last week came a stunning and unexpected check to the Communist advance in Asia. This was the place-a wrench-shaped "linguistic state" of 21 million Telugu-speaking people carved out of its neighbors in 1953-which the Communists had confidently expected to make their first political base in India. They talked extravagantly of turning Andhra into their "Yenan," a citadel from which they could subvert the rest of India. They already had 46 seats, only seven fewer than the Congress Party, in the state assembly. Andhra is their kind of breeding ground...
...thousands of Chinese refugees, European missionaries and businessmen who have crossed the bridge with their wives and children since then have been forced to walk, or more frequently, to limp along the footpath bearing on their weary backs or in their hands those few possessions they were able to wrench from the Communist grasp...
...hobbyist? One needs to be a jack-of-all-trades, attending to . . . the dishes, watering, bathing the kids and dog; weeding, washing the car, answering the phone and door. Then there's the errand running: upstairs for the hammer, down the basement to hunt for the missing pipe wrench. "Hold this board at just this angle at just this moment." "Please get me some more putty." There is sanding. Especially the corners and awkward spots which won't respond to power equipment held in other hands...
...Offutt Air Force Base who stopped on a stroll around the post to watch a middle-aged airman at work on a snappy sports car. "Let me give you a lift," he said finally. "I don't see how you ever got to be a sergeant handling a wrench that way." The man in overalls was General Curtis E. LeMay, SAC's commander (who is actually a first-class mechanic). By last week one phase of Curt LeMay's passion for sports cars had been noted and frowned upon in Washington...
...victims. I presume even Communists have some affection for their children and perhaps even for their wives. As the Negro spiritual has it: "There ain't no hidin' place down here." Those men would not be willing to die, not even that Communism might live . . . JANE L. WRENCH Columbia...