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...Viet Minh's General Vo Nguyen Giap had three Red divisions which had lain low for eight months. Last fortnight Giap attacked on a 40-mile front, quickly toppled a handful of mud-and-bamboo French outposts. His main target was the French stronghold of Nghialo (which the Communists had tried vainly, a year ago, to wrest from the late great General De Lattre de Tassigny...
...paratroopers to the trouble spot. They were dropped on a hill post near Nghialo but were quickly surrounded. In a heroic, exhausting, five-day march over the high ridges, bypassing Communists in the valleys, they made their way to the Black River. They had started carrying their wounded on bamboo stretchers, but when the litter carriers had no strength left, the wounded were left to their fate. The battalion chaplain stayed behind with them...
...have been enthusiastic TIME readers for many years, including several in postwar China until the Bamboo Curtain grew too rigid . . . [But] can you find me anyone who knew anything about China from the inside or outside who did not report in 1948 that "Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime was 'tainted by corrupt and reactionary elements'; it had 'lost the heart of the people,' who had turned to Communism as their only hope?" In fact, those are very mild descriptions of the situation, and would be accepted by businessmen, military officers, missionaries and diplomats...
...Exchange's day-to-day operation would bug many a Wall Streeter's eyes. Every day some 1,500 traders pack into a trading area only 75 feet square. On busy days, few can find room to move; they transmit their buying & selling signals by waving their bamboo fans. Their method of recording transactions is painfully cumbersome. One of the biggest brokerage houses has only one battered Remington Rand machine, does most of its arithmetic at machine speed on primitive abacuses. Frequently, its brokers and clerks have to work to 2 and 3 a.m. to catch up with...
...insatiable curiosity is equaled only by her dauntless enthusiasm. She strides earnestly through each new city, inspecting everything from museums to maternity wards. When she got to Africa for the filming of The African Queen, she caroled: "What divine natives! What divine morning glories" and began searching for a bamboo forest, because she wanted to know what it would feel like to sit alone in the middle...