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...Compleat Handyman. In his home workshop, the compleat handyman usually starts out buying a little $25 utility drill to act as a portable sander, buffer and saw. If he wants to make furniture, he discovers he needs a bigger, stationary tool for ripsawing heavy pieces of wood, buys himself an arbor saw for $150. Next he wants a jointer for cutting precise corners, which costs him $130. Then he wants something to drill deep, accurate holes, and so buys a drill press for $100. As he graduates to fancier work, and starts putting intricate filigrees in his woodwork, he needs...
Britain, Eden emphasized, is not interested in intervening in Indo-China under any circumstances. The British are willing to talk about a Southeast Asian pact after Geneva, but only a pact designed to guarantee what may be left of a partitioned Indo-China as a kind of buffer state-not to help the French fight on. Partition must come first...
Between the visitors on one side of the midfield stripe and the neighboring Eli students, Y.A.A. Ticket Manager Jim McDermott places what he calls a "gentlemanly buffer zone" of Yale faculty. He admits, however, that his precaution is unnecessary; the Ivy Group is not "school-boyish," he finds...
Article II B. A Military Armistice Commission, composed of five U.N. and five Communist officers, of which at least three from each side must be generals or admirals, is established. M.A.C. supervises the carrying out of the armistice terms, and polices the buffer zone...
...prisoners desiring repatriation will be returned within 60 days. The others will be placed in custody of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission (India, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia) and guarded by Indian troops only. To placate Syngman Rhee, the Indians will take custody in a part of the buffer zone near Panmunjom-which is outside Rhee's administrative area. For 90 days the Reds may send representatives to persuade the unwilling prisoners to return to their homeland. The number of such "explainers" is limited to seven for each 1,000 prisoners, and the interviews will be monitored by the N.N.R.C...