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...first notes of the bullfight music sounded, one of the fans hurled a stocking filled with flour toward the arena, hit a Mexican army lieutenant squarely in the face. A soldier who tried to arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...
...years with the Public Health Service, is a nationwide system of germ-warfare detection centers. They would operate in much the same way as a radar network for detecting the approach of aircraft. But instead of a sky-scanning "bedspring" or "clam shell," there would be, in each likely target area, a device to force large samples of air through filters on which disease-causing organisms would be trapped. Each day's catch could be analyzed to see whether any unusual microbes had appeared. So would samples of the area's milk and water supplies...
Fair Dealers and their C.I.O. buddies dug out his speeches, reread old articles, measured him for the target board and found him a perfect fit. He had once pronounced the New Deal's welfare programs a menace to the American way of life, in 1941 had loudly opposed Lend-Lease and U.S. "involvement" in Europe, had viewed with alarm presidential powers "to control completely the industrial life of America down to the smallest factory." What's more, he was also suspected of being overly soft toward Big Business...
Military handbooks allow 160 days for readying a landing of such magnitude. Beginning Aug. 16th, Almond drafted the plans for the Inchon landing by the 28th, had his X Corps (the U.S. 1st Marine and 7th Infantry Divisions plus South Korean units) on the sea and moving to the target by Sept. 10, went ashore on the 15th, secured the Inchon-Seoul-Kimpo area and completed his mission by October 7th-two weeks ahead of schedule and a total of 53 days from start to finish of brilliantly executed Operation Chromite...
Loud Cheers. The chief target was La Prensa, one of the world's great newspapers, and its editor & publisher, broadbrowed Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz. A delegate to the conference, Dr. Gainza Paz symbolized for the delegates the fight against censorship, and each time La Prensa's name was mentioned, the delegates cheered loudly...