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...Laredo, the Rio Grande ran dry (TIME, June 15), until irrigation upstream was curtailed. Grass on the ranges is burning brown and then disappearing. Great cracks are ripping open in the bare, scorched earth. The brown soil is blowing, an eerie haze against the blazing blue sky, forming dunes in the fields and lying in ripples against the sides of buildings...
...time he ends his talk in any town, as he did last week in Münster, the crowd stands in darkness, and a single light shines down upon Leppich's head. "I was in Bremerhaven recently," he thunders, "where American troops disembarked on to German soil. Do you know what we Germans hold out to these boys as a calling card? Whores...
...legislature, and after long months of lobbying, talked it into prohibiting both inheritance and income taxes in Nevada. Then, well armed with the names and idiosyncrasies of wealthy prospects, he set out to sell bankrupt ranches as tax havens, and was soon transplanting millionaires to Nevada's soil-e.g., Bing Crosby, Max Fleischmann, Bronx Politico Ed Flynn, Automobile Magnate Errett Lobban Cord, Stock Broker Dean Witter...
Bargaining Points. For example, to placate Rhee (who kept insisting that he would accept no cease-fire that left enemy soldiers on Korean soil), the U.N. had demanded that 34,000 North Korean prisoners unwilling to accept repatriation be turned loose forthwith, leaving only 14,500 unwilling Chinese to be dealt with. The U.N. had not really expected the enemy to accept this. And the U.N. had illogically demanded that the proposed prisoner commission of five neutral nations should act unanimously-after expressing fears that the Polish and Czech members would wield a veto...
...Polish or Czechoslovak troops would set foot on South Korean soil (as guards for the unwilling prisoners...