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...same sort of thing, in greater or less degree, was happening all across the land. Every major U.S. city was jammed to its last trailer camp. More than a million families were doubling up; thousands of servicemen in search of a home were returning to the U.S. An army of luckless people, most of them with adequate funds, engaged in a desperate competition for shelter. In Atlanta, 2,000 of them answered an ad for a single apartment. In freezing Minneapolis, a man, his wife and baby spent seven nights in their automobile...
Taylor, his four student pilots and nine enlisted men (most of them marines) vanished. Horror was added when the first search-rescue plane, a flying boat with a crew of 13, also vanished; a passing ship reported that it had blown up in midair...
Last week, in utter bafflement, the Navy called off its search. A board of inquiry began to sift far-fetched theories and farther-fetched rumors. A peacetime mystery was as unfathomable as any the war had produced...
Russia, in search of markets and warm water, has been in & out of Iran since the early 17th Century. The British were there before them. In Iran the thin, red line of British west-to-east imperialism crosses the north-to-south axis of Russian expansionism. In Peter the Great's famed "testament" (even if he did not write it, historians call it an accurate expression of Russian policy), he exhorted his countrymen to "excite continual wars in Turkey and Persia...
...Dice's owls appeared less than wise. They never learned to search the floor systematically for mice which they could...