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...monsoon was coming and the jungle air was saturated with the all-pervading damp, and with a sense of disaster. On a winding, roller-coaster trail hurried a pitiful file of refugees, fleeing from destruction, despair and defeat. At the head of the line, setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute, trudged a slight, bespectacled old man wearing a World War I campaign hat. Malaria, cholera, the heat and exhaustion had plucked younger men from the line, but Uncle Joe, then 59, never faltered. He refused to ride one of the caravan's few mules...
Although heavy showers and a brisk wind kept all but seven of the 25 hopefuls from entering the first round of the wherry competition yesterday; the few avid boating fans who watched the opening round of the summer sculling regatta witnessed two almost dead heats on the half-mile Charles River Course...
Enter the Head Man. There was a stir in the back of the hall and Molotov bustled in with his brisk, bobbing swagger. His face was pink with anxiety and his tie (for once) was askew. He snapped his finger to attract the chair's attention, and Bidault wearily said: "The Soviet delegation has an observation to make." A reporter muttered: "Hold your hats, boys, here we go again...
...This brisk, colorful history, first published in 1909 and now reissued, has been so long out of print that it will seem new to most readers. It will remind others of the part played by a flat-bottomed river steamer in the bloodiest little land battle in U.S. annals...
...called it "close to a high-water mark in vicious finance." The Interstate Commerce Commission declared it was not in the public interest. In a last-ditch stand, Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Francis E. Walter cried that it would cause "a scandal." Nevertheless Congress last week, in a brisk mood, passed and sent the Wheeler-Reed rail reorganization bill...