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...captured Russian-made tank. To newsmen he said, "This is a pleasing sight for my old eyes." The Red journalists printed MacArthur's picture and quoted him correctly. But their version showed a great change. MacArthur was gazing, not at a Russian tank, but on a pile of dead North Koreans...
...sustain war production for five years) is "not satisfactory," said Munitions Board Chairman John D. Small last week. The stockpile's goal is $8.9 billion worth of materials, but at year's end the total was only $2.7 billion. Small, who is in charge of the pile, promised to build...
...department of cloaks and daggers, the HYRC, like the NKVD and OGPU, stops at nothing. The latest trick in its Saturday-thriller series was a wire recorder concealed under a pile of innocent, if dirty, laundry. The "embarrassing conversation" secretly recorded in an Eliot House room became a key item in the Young Republicans' intramural politics...
...Vocations." That was the word. Here they all were, put together in a special book. He placed the book gently on the table and went to his closet to select a striped tie. Then he remembered the other mail. There were three envelopes, lying close together in a careful pile. The first had a window cut into it; Vag snickered and tossed it back on the table. The next had a handwritten address. He opened it quickly. "24-Hour Cleaning," it said. "Why pay more?" Vag crumpled it into a tight ball and threw it into the fireplace. The maid...
Gribble recently invited Gregg to his Eliot House room to "discuss the whole thing over a bottle of beer." While they talked, a wire recorder, which Gribble had previously concealed under a pile of dirty laundry, took down the conversation...