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...Western plains through Teutonic gutterals and mellifluous Urdu to the cool precision of Oxford English. And they weren't all Tom and Harry. There were Karls and Kims and Bongs and Phyas and Mohammed Alis and Yoshinoris and Joaquins and Chaunceys as well. Their identification tags bore legends as disparate as "Funeral Director, Waxahachie, Texas" and "Medicine, Wagga Wagga, Australia." A Good Proposition. Rotary International, like the other U.S. service clubs (Lions, Kiwanis, Exchange, etc.), was founded with the simple idea of giving plain but often circumscribed businessmen a chance to meet and make friends...
...medical profession did not interest me ... but it gave me a chance of living in London and so gaining the experience of life that I hankered after ... I saw how men died. I saw how they bore pain ... I saw the dark lines that despair drew on a face ... I do not know a better training for a writer than to spend some years in the medical profession...
...vetoed by West German Chancellor Adenauer. It was Templer who had dismissed Adenauer as Lord Mayor of Cologne in October 1945, "for not energetically carrying out the orders of the military government." But from Bonn came word that Adenauer had made no protest against the Templer appointment, and certainly bore no grudge. Another possibility: Templer is being held in reserve as Britain's candidate for supreme command of any new Southeast Asia treaty organization...
...came to a stream. Some laughing Vietnamese soldiers in soaking-wet uniforms were displaying their new collection of Communist rifles and grenades. They held out hatfuls of Communist paper money that bore the portrait of Ho Chi Minh. "My men surprised a Viet Minh company, and we killed 15 of them," a Vietnamese battalion commander explained. "They say our morale is bad, but you should have seen it. My men dived into the river to get at the enemy...
...have seen the new models thought that the Journal had picked up some old blueprints of the Chevrolet; there have been at least two new designs since that model. Ford executives were frankly surprised at the sketch of the front end of the Ford: it looked like a Studebaker, bore little resemblance to their 1955 model. The most accurate sketch was of the Dodge, with a flat hood and rear deck, high fender lines, and a wrap-around windshield with the window post slanting back, instead of being perpendicular as in G.M. cars. But there was no doubt that next...