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Knapp and Moore retained the open cake box, the forgotten pool room, and the traditional habit of handing out cigars at Commencement. And they established the shop among the elite smokers by importing their own Algerian briar pipes and stocking their shelves with ninety cigarette brands...
Among the uniforms that Ike has donated to the collection are his West Point greys and tarbucket hat, the field uniform, including the Eisenhower jacket that he wore in France, and an elaborate red wool cloak that signifies that Ike is a corporal in the crack Algerian Spahis of the French army. From Ethiopia came a rhinoceros-hide shield; from Greece, an ancient (800 B.C.) wine flask; and from the District of Columbia, red, white and blue license plate No. 1. Ike himself brought back a bracelet of boar's tusks from his Philippine tour with Douglas Mac-Arthur...
...French wire and scale Bea trice at its steepest points. ("We had trouble angling our guns low enough to hit them," said a legionnaire. "We threw grenades down, but they kept on climbing like monkeys.") At 2000, the Communists overrun one legion company. At 2 200, they attack the Algerian battalion on Gabrielle. At midnight, they go for De Castries' southernmost position, but there the French guns cut them to pieces...
...fresh Communist regiments go for Gabrielle again. The Algerians .stand. At 2000. the Reds try again -the eighth time. "We've been firing for an hour," says a French voice on Gabrielle's radio, "and still they get nearer." At 2030, Red artillery knocks out the radio and searches for the remaining Algerian mortars. The Algerian infantrymen shift their mortars around the perimeter and keep the Reds at bay. "Our barbed wire has disappeared under heaps of their dead," an officer reports. At 2300, the Communists withdraw. Weather still blocks out French tactical...
...wine problem is overproduction of poor, low-priced grades. Almost half of France's home-wine crop comes from le Midi méditerranéen, roughly the region between Marseille and the Pyrenees. It is cheap, tart wine, and much of it is mixed with Algerian wine and sold as vin rouge, which must be consumed quickly, or it will turn sour...