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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hanoi, 50,000 (mostly shaky Vietnamese) elsewhere in the delta, and they were desperately flying in reinforcements from southern Indo-China and from France and North Africa (via U.S. airlift). Commanding General Navarre reportedly asked Paris for two fresh divisions, yet his officers did their best to appear calm and unconcerned. Said Navarre's top deputy in Hanoi last week: "The situation in the delta is serious, but not desperate." French generals said exactly that during the last days at Dienbienphu...
...main international river systems . . . are still controlled on a piecemeal basis. Proposals for more integration . . . have not been well received." Country by country, however, "some of the results appear considerably more auspicious...
Alarmed, the city's health department went out looking for 72 recent Van Nuys graduates who had been exposed to Cora Sutherland's tuberculosis, urged all to appear for chest X rays. Last week the health department asked the board of education to require all teachers to submit to complete medical examinations. Said the resolution: the teachers now sidestepping the examinations"may be exposing the school population of 463,719 to tuberculosis, a leading killer...
Official Crackdown. When 25-year-old Trackman Bannister was hustled aboard a plane at London airport under the alias "Richard Bentley," his flight to the U.S. was supposed to be a secret. He had been asked to appear on the CBS-TV panel show I've Got a Secret. The British Foreign Office came to the aid of the producers, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, by persuading the British Amateur Athletic Board that the trip would help "cement British-American relations." By the time Bannister landed at New York's Idlewild airport, Reuters had broken the story...
...militarist democracy," Griswold explained, "there is much to be said for not having such service at as young an age as eighteen." He added, however, that "military training at the close of college does not appear to be too early...