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...HAPPY!" In the course of their work the tourists watch a Mexican peasant wedding and several pieces of professional entertainment, notably by Miss Brazil (Louise Burnett), who can span three octaves without turning a hair, and Cuba's dionysian Miguelito Valdes, who suggests a three-power compromise between Cab Galloway, Orson Welles and Rube Bandleader Spike Jones...
...Monopoly on Skill. As CAB hearings droned through their second week, Pan American Airways Corp., as usual, championed the idea of a single...
Until the U.S. makes up its mind whether it wants monopoly, limited competition or free competition on its overseas air routes, the final assignment of routes will be a difficult decision for CAB to make. But one point was clearing up. Pan Am no longer could claim a monopoly on the "know-how" of overseas flying. Since Pearl Harbor too many of Pan Am's competitors had learned, the hard way, how to navigate the ocean's airways...
Rodriguez, onetime cab driver and amateur boxer from Neptune, N.J. and now a military policeman, is famous in the Army. At his first station 200 soldiers signed a petition to the C.O. to billet Rodriguez alone. "I guess I have had more shoes thrown at me than any man in the Army," Rodriguez recalls with mixed sadness and pride. "Even when we went out for battle drill and all dug foxholes together to sleep in, it was the old story. When I woke in the morning everybody else had got out and dug themselves another foxhole...
...ready for the junk yard. There were old German trucks burning stinking diesel oil, commercial trucks burning sweet-smelling alcohol. Every truck was piled five to ten feet high with baggage or goods. Humanity clustered over the baggage on the trucks, over the mudguards, over the driver's cab...