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Concerning modern schools [Sept. 7] ... since when did octagonal and hexagonal buildings with their cost doubling and tripling the cost of a foursquare, three-story building improve the study of the 3Rs? The average taxpayer and his school board have been taken for a fast ride down the chute by a lot of modernists who are not quite sure what they want to do except that it must be "different...
Shortly after dawn one day last week, 3,000 French and Vietnamese paratroopers dropped out of U.S. -made transport planes and floated down on the ancient gateway town of Langson (pop. 7,400), only eleven miles south of the China border. Quickly the soldiers slipped out of their chute harness, jogged through town, and headed for the deep limestone caves where the rebel armies of Ho Chi Minh had cached war materiel. Taken by surprise, the Viet Minh garrison fled. Systematically, the French set to work destroying enough Communist supplies to equip two Red divisions. In twelve busy hours, paratroopers...
...teeth were none too good-per haps because he believed that the cure for toothache was to chew hard on a piece of mahogany ("massage," he called it). He always slept soundly; even when many anxieties were on his mind, his snores resounded "like coal going down a chute." Though his joints cracked like muskets when he did his one-legged heave-ups, he was determined to outlive any other man of his generation and be a second Napoleon. Not that he approved entirely of Napoleon. Bonaparte, he used to say, "filled himself full of onion soup and brandy before...
...into the paratroops with him to help put on a company camp show. Jerry, posing as a paratrooper (in a trick breakaway uniform), all but breaks up the division by asking his sergeant to tuck him into bed, captures a general during maneuvers, jumps from a plane without his chute and lands on Dean's parachute in midair. The screenplay of Jumping Jacks is lighter than air, but the picture may divert those moviegoers who relish Dean's singing and Jerry's uninhibited simiantics...
...fuel; he was too far from the field to belly-in. A wingman heard him say: "I've got to get out of this thing." He jumped, but he was too low. Within the hour his men found Good Citizen Prendergast shrouded in his, partially opened chute...