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...linking China with Red-controlled Laos itself. Slowly the Communists have been pinching off supplies to Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le and bribing his officers to defect. Last week, with Kong Le's food and ammunition rations down to the two-day level, the Reds, in a blaze of gunfire, sliced off another chunk of neutralist territory at Xiengkhouang, just south of the plateau...
...choosing not to live in his times, he spent his last years in the sunlit hills of Southern France in a solitary search for the pure sensations of color. And even more than his oils, the hermit master's ventures in the casual medium of watercolor blaze with a natural incandescence that never could be summoned by a light switch...
Although it forced some 800 people to leave their homes, the blaze was confined to the 119-year-old Swift & Co. plant at 188 Gore St. It was the third major Easter fire in Cambridge in as many years...
...from the fire, thought by some observers to be the largest in recent Boston history, was visible for ten miles, and dense smoke clowds snarled traffic in Harvard Square. Gusts of winds carried giant-sized embers, some of which were deposited, still burning, more than a mile from the blaze...
What changed things was the Corpsmen's response to a fire that burned out a tenement three blocks north of ACT headquarters. The volunteers were on the scene shortly after the blaze began, bringing coffee and food for the firemen, first aid and clothing for those left homeless by the blaze. Later, the Corpsmen took up a collection of old clothing for the homeless; the contributions swamped the Corp's headquarters. The overflow had to be stored in a nearby armory where new contributions came in for days. Old women gave their favorite dresses; men on unemployment relief gave half...