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...past two years, Darmstadt has grown accustomed to such unorthodox punishments meted out by Karl Holzschuh. A kindly man of 46 with a fringe of yellow hair about his bald head, he is known throughout the district as the "Chocolate Judge" because he once sentenced a little girl, convicted of stealing chocolate, to donate a candy bar each week to an orphanage. More respectful Germans, however, have another name -"The Solomon of Darmstadt" - for the man chiefly responsible for cutting the local delinquency rate...
Then the Moroccans launch one of the epics of the battle: they make eleven separate counterattacks against Bald Head and eleven times they fail with losses. They try once more-and win. From Paris comes word that France's highest unit citation has been awarded to the entire garrison: "The heroic sacrifice of those who have fallen, the fierce tenacity of the fighters, adds a new glory to ... our arms," says France. De Castries is nominated for brigadier general...
...Plus-Four. The tireless De Castries orders another counterattack at 0400. This one clears Huguette of the enemy. At dawn, he attacks from Bald Head, and for the first time in the battle, some C ommmunists drop their arms...
More good news: reinforcements from Hanoi are dropped-tough paratroopers in red berets. Red gunfire slackens, and the Reds pull back 500 yards from Bald Head to regroup. The situation, says French HQ. is "serious, but less critical...
Taste for Growth. Finding uranium in fertilizer is just the kind of moneymaking operation that International Minerals and its bald, bouncing President Louis Ware specialize in. Ware, who learned the mining business from the shovel up, is a combination of scientist and hardheaded businessman, thinks researchers can ferret out untold new products hidden in the earth's drabbest minerals...