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...little, as circumstances changed a defeated enemy into a necessary ally, occupation authorities trimmed down special privileges. By 1952 it was no longer possible for U.S. Army personnel to get free servants (chargeable to West Germany as an occupation cost), or to ride first-class on a third-class railway ticket. But no amount of self-imposed limitations altered the fact that the Allied occupation troops were essentially immune to German...
...clammy dawn, a railway inspector in Hamburg last week was making his rounds of freight cars on a siding. A car packed with crated machinery from Hungary caught his eye. From a knothole in one big crate, a finger beckoned. The inspector hurried over to the crate. Inside it a hoarse voice whispered: "Thirst, thirst." When police broke open the crate a young, dirty-bearded man, too weak even to stand, fell out into their arms...
Until the shooting, the people had never, given Gamal Abdel Nasser the affection they gave his pipe-smoking predecessor, General Naguib. Now, as Nasser's train passed through the delta cities, returning to Cairo, huge crowds spontaneously came out to cheer him. At the Cairo railway station, 100,000 people surged against police lines crying, "God bless Gamal." Besieged by admirers reaching out to embrace him, the Premier needed two hours to make what was ordinarily a ten-minute drive to his office. Eight wild shots had served him well...
...terms of the truce also called for each side to turn over public services in operating condition. Accordingly, French Premier Mendés-France sent a personal emissary to Hanoi to persuade the four big French-run public utility companies-the power plant, water company, Yunnan railway, and Hanoi's municipal streetcar system-to stay on under the Communists...
...Atomic Deposits. For those who want to protect documents and other valuables from atom bombs, the Railway Express Agency has set up a service to seal them in bombproof, ventilated concrete vaults deep inside Iron Mountain, near Hudson, N.Y. Customers pack their possessions in cylindrical metal containers three inches in diameter, one foot long. Rental: $10 the first year, $5 thereafter...