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...Rumania's King Mihai, heard that she was to be reimbursed for a personal war loss, suffered when U.S. bombers raided Brasov. En route to her from one of the raiders (Colonel Marshall R. Gray, now in Seattle) was a pair of nylons, to replace those she had torn while making royal tracks out of the city...
...hinterland, from Chungking to Kunming, China's exiles were selling their makeshift furniture, preparing for the long trek home, for the sadly happy task of picking up the old threads again, however tangled and torn. Some gathered on the Yangtze banks, searching for rafts to float downstream. Others pushed carts and trudged by foot along the roads leading from the citadels of resistance. The tide of humanity, some 25,000,000 strong, which had flowed from the coast to the interior over an area half as big as the U.S., was rolling back again...
...power in particular seemed all-important to Harry Truman. So far as he could see, the Emperor alone could effectively order the surrender of all the Jap forces still scattered across the torn face of Asia and the Pacific. Some of the President's advisers reasoned that for this reason, if no other, the Emperor had best be left untouched. The President reasoned just the other way: the Emperor must bow specifically and unmistakably to the victor...
...hotel and put his head out the window when he heard the drone of engines overhead. "I looked up," he said in a Tokyo radio interview, "and simultaneously a lightning-like flash covered the whole sky, blinding my eyes. Unconsciously, I dived for cover and a torn quilt miraculously was blown over me, which I hugged to myself for dear life...
...fjader, Hägg said after the race that the four-minute mile was no longer a problem: "I believe I could have done it today if there had been more competition." Then, to prove he had plenty left, he sprinted an extra lap in a triumphal shower of torn programs...