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...combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into a honking, gear-clashing bedlam of traffic...
...London peddler, howling unintelligible Cockney among gear groans and horn toots: "Cut iris, cut cauliflower, Yorkshire blue peas and brand new potatoes...
...student body, the tale has spread like wildfire. The magnitude of its effect can hardly be underestimated. Erstwhile socialites are reluctant to leave their rooms for fear of perishing in the night, and those hardy spirits venturing forth after dark take precaution to equip themselves with the latest survival gear and leave instructions for their rescue by the Cambridge Troop of St. Bernard dogs...
Shortages in furniture and gear are holding up a planned reshuffling of office space in the Hygiene Building, Dr. Bock said. The shift was required by the removal of the Employees' Clinic from the Hygiene Building to the adjoining one-story building two months...
...Paris' Orly Field one night last week Pilot Herbert Tansey got his takeoff signal from the control tower and headed T.W.A.'s big four-engine Constellation down the light-bordered runway. Airborne, he picked up the landing gear and set the Star of Cairo on her course northwest for Shannon, Eire, the first stop on the regular Paris-New York run. It was midnight...