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Dimitrios played a double game. He maintained a secret organosis of villagers who acted as informers for the Communist guerrillas and laid mines to blow up government transport. For three years, day & night, peasant women had sneaked through fields, hiding mines beneath their wide woolen petticoats, and dreamy-eyed shepherds had leaned on their crooks, watching for government convoys...
...Pacific the Army transport General William O. Darby radioed a plea for an iron lung to save John Driskell, 6, son of a sergeant homeward bound from duty in Japan. The Coast Guard cutter Iroquois raced 1,000 miles from Honolulu with a lung; the boy was transferred to the cutter and taken to the hospital in Hawaii...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria three months ago, grizzled old Chaim Weizmann had lunch with young Henry Ford II. Israel's President spoke of his country's desperate need for motor transportation. With only 30 miles of the rickety Haifa-to-Cairo coastal railroad operating, Israel had to rely almost entirely on highway transport, and therefore needed the U.S. auto industry's help. Weizmann's plea presented Ford a double opportunity: to wipe out the last unpleasant memories of Grandfather Henry Ford's involvement in anti-Semitism,* and at the same time to swing...
...MANHATTAN, on the grounds that four garage mechanics had been fired, the Transport Workers' hardheaded Mike Quill cut off transportation for 1,250,000 New York bus riders. Ignoring a no-strike pledge he made only two weeks ago, and blandly passing over the original excuse for the strike, Quill threatened to keep the boys out until he got them an extra 21? an hour, a 40-hour week and a whole string of pension and welfare concessions...
...fuzzy world of Japan's new democracy it seemed like a Shinto nightmare. Two thousand hard-jawed Japanese, in jackboots and military khaki, clomped down the gangplank of the transport that had brought them from prison camps in Siberia to their home in Dai Nippon. They clenched fists, bawled the Internationale and the Song of the Kolkhoz...