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...first shot hooked into the rough and left him with a sandy lie. Instead of playing a cautious game, Sam took a custom-made 2½ wood from his bag and aimed a daring shot right at the pin. He flubbed it; the ball landed in a fairway bunker. Trying desperately for the green, he slashed an iron shot that landed on an overhanging lip above a sandtrap, rolled back toward the sand and hung precariously in long grass. On his fourth shot, with one foot in the trap and one out, Snead overshot the green and fell into another...
Story from the Hospital. About 15 hours later, the wounded were resting in Hanoi's military hospital, and three men were well enough to tell Dienbienphu's last story."It seemed as though thousands of shells were striking our hospital bunker," said Private Michel Champougny."One shell exploded right inside another bunker, and the wounded were buried alive. Outside we could hear the screaming of the Viet Minh and the answering shouts of the French. Everyone was fighting, hand to hand. But around 6 p.m. there was silence, and we knew the battle was over...
...reach of enemy artillery. But they wanted to install themselves in a basin without occupying the surrounding hills, and the terrain was neutralized from the first day of the battle. And our artillery proved so powerless to locate the enemy guns that the colonel responsible committed suicide in his bunker on March 14th, by blowing himself up with a hand grenade...
Payoff. With the help of the jet age, hustling President Bunker has managed to turn moly into a bonanza. When Bunker, who is considered one of the top U.S. authorities on raw materials, took over Climax in 1949, the company owned North America's biggest known supply of the metal, in Colorado, but had few buyers. Bunker, 58, went to Washington to argue that the U.S. was in poor shape for the heat-resistant alloy it needed for jet engines, persuaded the Government to start buying...
Korea proved Bunker right. When the U.S. started rearming, demand for moly soared. By 1951, production had doubled to 22 million lbs. a year and Climax was selling all it could mine. To catch up with demand, it has just completed a $35 million expansion at the moly mine in Colorado that will boost production another 55%, give Climax more than 70% of the world's total output...