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Last week one of A.V.C's top leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., admitted their success: "The Commies moved in, and from a flowering, inspiring group of young Americans, interested in the nation's welfare, we have become a tattered and torn group. We are now bewildered and confused by the lies and tactics thrown at us by people who would not admit they were Communists but who at every turn of the road hewed to the Daily Worker line." The A.V.C. was now stopped near the 80,000 mark in its drive for a million members, he said...
...solution of world problems is immense. The economic future of The Netherlands depends, in great measure, on the Big Powers' determination of Germany's industrial future. The Netherlands is also deeply concerned in the Pacific, where much of her once-great East Indian empire is being torn away by revolution...
...been battling Arctic cold, avalanches and the dead-white swirl of alpine blizzards in a search for a lost Marine Corps transport plane. But a fall on rock-fanged ice had finally sent him skiing painfully back to his snug cottage in a timber-bordered Government camp. With his torn ribs healing he would idle before a snapping log fire, listen to the faint roar of the Nisqually River, and watch his pretty wife, Martie, cooking a 19-pound turkey...
...swayed in a panel of flame, rolling his head from side to side. Around him, guests huddled and crawled on ledges to escape deadly gas and smoke, dangled from sheet ropes over fire-belching windows, and leaped for safety nets. Some hit with such force that the nets were torn from firemen's hands. As a girl jumped from a seventh-floor window she gasped: "I hope I live! I hope I live!" Despite a broken...
...mines falling out, it swerved and hit a child, crumpled into a tree, and exploded, blowing the two occupants into tattered shreds. Several houses on both sides of the street collapsed as the mines went off. All that remained of one Arab-style villa was a wall with a torn picture of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism...