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Adventurous doctors could make a good guess that the job would take them to a Mohammedan court,, somewhere on the dry but oil-rich Arabian peninsula. By week's end, six well-qualified couples had applied...
...outset of the 1948 campaign, Griffiths took on the job of wresting party control away from the conservative Democratic Old Guard. He and his wife Martha beat the bushes through upstate Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, stopping where no old-line Democrat had ventured for years. Along their trail they left scores of new party outposts. The outposts did not count much in general elections, but they could send delegates to the state Democratic conventions-and seizing control of the party was the coalition's first objective...
...ship, 175 more Thunderjets are being dispatched to Korea. These, plus 75 jets sent from Japan, will increase U.N. fighter strength at the Korean bases by 250 planes. The ten fighter wings on the peninsula, long operating understrength, are all being brought up to full combat strength. General Mark Clark started clamoring for more planes even before he left for Tokyo in May, and he was solidly backed up by his air commander, General O. P. Weyland. The maintenance situation has improved: whereas only 50% to 65% of U.N. planes used to be available for operations on any given...
Peppery General Sir Gerald Templer, Britain's High Commissioner for the Communist-bandit-ridden Malayan Federation, flew in to London to report to the British Colonial Office on his first tour of duty in the rubber-rich equatorial peninsula. In machine-gun tones, he rattled off his news...
...sizable number of Malaya's peaceful Chinese colony sympathizes with the guerrillas, it is doubtful whether the British can wipe the guerrillas out entirely. The problem is to give Malaya's 2,500,000 economically powerful Chinese some kind of political voice without stirring up the peninsula's 2,500,000 indigenous Malays...