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...spot, bring about a cease-fire and arrange for the evacuation of the wounded. Colonel Flint, a tough, wiry Korean war veteran, had been badly wounded by an exploding mine on Mount Scopus two years before. He set forth immediately for the Arab village of Issawiya, on the Jordanian sector of Mount Scopus. Checking fast, he learned that four members of an Israeli police patrol lay wounded at the edge of the Israeli zone where they had been hit in the first shooting; other Israelis crawling up to rescue them appeared to be pinned down among the rocks and scrub...
...Recession 1958-"there is too much of a tendency in some business quarters to say: let the Government bail out the economy. Government can help, but the primary responsibility for recovery must be assumed by American business and labor and the other vital forces that make up the private sector of the American economy...
...bombers from the British, Australian and New Zealand air forces worked over a 1,600-mile tract of jungle in Perak. On the ground, patrols crept toward the shattered target areas, cutting their way through underbrush as high as a man's head. British artillery plastered one sector near Sungei Siput with 25-pounders. An Australian battery poured mortar fire into another area, while only 400 yds. away a platoon of weary New Zealanders sweated out their 15th day of waiting for the enemy to show himself. For 33,000 Malayan and other Commonwealth troops, it was an exasperating...
Philadelphia's Negro population numbers about 490,000, with new immigrants -mostly from the South and 60% unskilled workers-coming in at the rate of 600 a month. Most of the Negroes are concentrated in the central sector of the city, dubbed "the jungle." There, dismal lines of grimy, red brick row houses huddle bleakly behind paneless or paper-covered windows, and tenants must sometimes use ladders in place of stairways, outhouses instead of running-water toilets. With the jungle overcrowded, other immigrants fan out into other areas in the city. Some well-off families manage to slip into...
...through its first week of freedom after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. The handsome navy chief, setting the pace for his five-man junta, spoke in tones of moderation, by week's end appeared to have won the support of nearly every sector of Venezuelan life...