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Facts & Figures. Brisk and beaming at an early morning press conference, General Clay scattered the good news like bird shot. In Western Germany, he said, "there has been an almost unbelievable recovery." The airlift into beleaguered Berlin, he said, now carried 5,000 tons of food and fuel a day during good weather and 3,000 "under very bad conditions." This would be enough to keep Berlin supplied through the winter; besides, he had wangled 66 additional C-54s for the airlift (see Armed Forces...
Hurrah for Uncle Autumn. Western Germany last week was full of hope. The summer had been cold and rainy, but it had been followed by a glorious golden autumn. On the freshly harvested fields, which had yielded a bumper crop, children launched their kites into the brisk wind; it seemed, sometimes, as though the gaily colored Drachen rode high enough to touch the C-54s which droned overhead in their ceaseless shuttle to Berlin...
...morning an aide caught him in the act of taking a brisk, two-mile walk. Between breakfast and midnight that day, Harry Truman traveled 500 miles by train, 141 by automobile and bus, made 15 speeches in 15 different towns, changed his clothes eight times and met 250 politicians, labor leaders and civic dignitaries...
...three brisk, businesslike days in convention Canada's Tories last week made two fateful decisions. They stood pat on their historic Conservative policies, ignoring the "Progressive" in the party's name. To head the party they picked a dynamic leader: George Alexander Drew, Ontario's Premier...
Better Half. In Tokyo, marriage bureaus reported business so brisk that they recently paired off a one-eyed bride with a one-legged groom...