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...lieutenant colonel of engineers, some demolition men and a reconnaissance platoon stood in the middle of the muddy road 100 yards from the edge of the town. The town itself was completely quiet except for a band of several hundred Koreans who stood disconsolately around holding aloft several South Korean flags. The colonel wanted to blow up a railroad bridge that crossed the road a few yards from where he stood, but he was having his troubles...
...thing; they tried to make the voters look somewhere else. Squads of paste and bucket men were sent rushing out to some 500 billboards which carried pictures of various lesser Democratic candidates. Over these expendable faces the paste and bucket brigade slapped a mammoth photograph of Harry Truman holding aloft the hand of Scott Lucas. The legend on the poster: "For World Peace and Continued Prosperity-Vote Democratic...
...intersection we slowed down to pass a sandbag barricade. The crowds lining the street surged out around us, offered us sesame cookies and handshakes. Farther down the street a South Korean cavalryman put his horse through a victory prance while he waved his rifle aloft, a Communist battle flag impaled on his bayonet...
...model approaches the ground (see cut). When the speed has been reduced sufficiently, a parachute pops out and lowers the model to the earth. The model's instruments are self-recording. After the records have been taken out and the parachute repacked, the model can be sent aloft for another drop...
Some 20 wild creatures, from the crayfish to the moose, are caught in unguarded moments during each of the four seasons of the year. The camera looks aloft to watch hawks exchanging a dead mouse in midair, and under water to see weary salmon returning to their spawning beds. A young beaver goes off on his own, sets up housekeeping with a widow and her baby beaver and builds a dam for the family. A skulking coyote preys on the well-camouflaged heron and bittern and the nimble marmot and badger...