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Viet Nam, as the Indo-Chinese call their country, is shaped like the load which millions of her barefooted peasants carry over their shoulders: two bulging baskets at either end of a thin pole. One bulge is northern Viet Nam (Tonkin), and the other southern Viet Nam (Cochin China). In the slender central region (An-nam), the mountains ripple almost down to the coast. Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces terrorize the coastal plains. In the south, terrorists make life unpleasant in the crowded Saigon region, and the Communist Vietminh haunts the marshes between the numberless arms...
...field, soldiers sweated to load planes which had flown in earlier with evacuees, and send them winging back to Tokyo. This is the Pacific airlift. Every day it flies some 100 tons of men and vitally needed munitions, medicines, etc. from Fairfield-Suisun, Tacoma and San Jose to Tokyo to support the Korean fighting. Every week its 53 commercial liners and 98 Military Air Transport Service planes fly a quarter of the way around the world and back, carrying more ton-miles of cargo than all the U.S. domestic airlines combined...
Heavy with her warlike load, the huge plane ate up most of the mile-and-a-half Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base runway before she was airborne. Seconds later, Plane Captain E. Q. Steffes radioed that he was in real triple trouble: two of his engines were roaring faster & faster out of control, would probably soon tear themselves from the wings. And he was fighting the drag of a landing gear that wouldn't retract. He banked the B-29 in a steep semicircle, skimmed close to the lights of Fairfield-Suisun's sprawling trailer camp, and crash...
Sugar Plum. Commodity men had another solution for high prices. Instead of throttling the futures markets, they said, the Government could keep prices down simply by dumping on the market some of its $2.5 billion load of surplus farm products. Said Chicago Board of Trade Executive Vice President J. 0. McClintock: "Since there is really no scarcity, with the government holding all these goods . . . selling surplus is possibly the best way to stave off inflation...
Down with the Jury! The common practice in dealing with a jury in disagreement, writes Author Bernard O'Donnell, Fleet Street crime reporter, was to load its members into a cart and haul them around the city "so that a jeering populace could express their contempt for men so heedless of their duties as citizens." All in all, readers who still think that King John's Magna Carta brought a fairly modern sense of justice into British courts will have their eyes opened by Author O'Donnell's blood-curdling history of Old Bailey...