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...well be the world's worst international highway. Its dizzy hairpin turns were scraped out and leveled (often with dragged thornbushes) by African tribesmen working off their tax debts. Along its flat stretches, the road is little more than a trail of treacherous sand or soap-slick mud. Black, blinding rains and eerie mists make it all but impassable from October to May, and the right-of-way is often usurped by two-ton rhinos, herds of elephant and lions basking...
...economic aid to South Viet Nam. The problem could easily be resolved, Dirksen countered, by getting Mansfield to withdraw his motion to take up repeal of 14(b). "Is compulsory unionism more important than the young men who are slogging among the insects and the slime and the mud of Viet Nam?" asked Dirksen. "If Viet Nam is important, good. Then let the President come down to us and ask us to withdraw it. It is that simple...
...more prosperous suffered as well. Boulders cascaded from the hills, breaking water mains and damaging houses. Mud oozed down, clogging streets. Hordes of rats scurried from the flooded sewers, and health authorities started mass immunizations to avoid a typhoid epidemic. Electrical power failed in many neighborhoods...
Though she roughed it with the troops and took risks that many of them balked at, she never lost her femininity on the battlefield. "Maggie wears mud like other women wear makeup," said an admiring G.I. In fact, she used her blonde, blue-eyed charm to get the stories she wanted, a ploy that left some of her male colleagues sputtering with rage. Angriest of all was her fellow Trib reporter Homer Bigart. "Maggie is driving Homer right into a Pulitzer Prize for the best coverage of the Korean War," said another correspondent. The two drove each other; they shared...
...Green Bay on the morning of the game. The playing field was chocolate pudding-which was tasty as far as the Packers were concerned. "Packer weather," it is commonly called around the league, since Coach Lombardi's brand of football is so basic that little things like mud and snow don't bother him a bit. Cleveland's attack, as always, was built around the ultrasophisticated running of Jimmy Brown-and one look at the field was enough to convince Jim that it was not going to be his day. Although he is a fullback, Brown...