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...Sack boarded the prisoner ship--an LST--at Cheju Island. It was enroute to Pusan, Korea, with a load of Chinese Communists bound for repatriation. As the prisoners filed off the ship at Pusan, military police spotted Sack and detained him for violating a "no press allowed...
Private-Enterprise Job. There are many other methods by which the U.S. Government might lessen its farm load by turning over more of the job to private enterprise. Among those being considered by Ezra Benson and his advisers...
...crew of a sambuk marooned a load of pilgrims on an uninhabited island near the Eritrean coast, telling them they were in the Holy Land. Most of the pilgrims died of thirst, but a few lived to identify the sambuk crew, who were hanged. Last year a Saudi Arabian patrol found another party of pilgrims, 18 of them dead of thirst, who had been dumped on a lonely shore and told to walk in the wrong direction. None of this was known to 32 innocent Nigerians who had spent two years walking from the west coast of Africa, across deserts...
...Plainfield, Ind., Farmer Raymond Heald got fed up with townspeople throwing beer bottles, tin cans and garbage in his fields, "gave them back what they'd been giving me" by dumping a load of garbage in front of the town hall, was acquitted of committing a misdemeanor by a jury which included eight farmers...
...raise a fuss when he started going off to Augusta every few days for a vacation on the golf course. Previous presidents, to be sure, have found that the job takes all day every day, but we weren't going to get upset about it. "Maybe the work load is a little easier at the beginning, before things really get rolling," we thought. "Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. After all, isn't he appointing plenty of Harvard...