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...world's greatest rivers is the Mekong, which rises in Tibet and flows* 2,800 miles to the sea at the southeastern corner of Indo-China. The Mekong delta is a 100-mile-long wedge of swampland, rice fields, palm trees and mangroves, called the Cis Bassac. "The Devil does not want for water here," say the French who use the Cis Bassac as a base for operations against Communist guerrillas infesting the thick Foret Inondee to the west and the marshes of the Plaine des Jones to the east. Fifteen times in the last year the French have...
...waiting 70 years for. I have much the same feeling as that expressed by Mark Twain after receiving the Doctor of Letters honorary degree from Oxford University: "I feel as if I had received an official emancipation from ignorance and vice . . ." After reading TIME's gay précis, I confess that I felt no sense of departure, but rather the distinct conviction of arrival...
Contracts for 100 CIs have been let, mostly to Great Lakes shipbuilders...
Readers of Walter Dumaux Edmonds' novel about the effects of the American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley, on which this picture is based, may recall the trials of Lana (Claudette Colbert). Softened by the refinements of cosmopolitan Albany, she is suddenly plumped into the cis-Schenectady wilderness by her pioneering husband Gil (worried-looking Henry Fonda). Lana goes into hysterics when the first friendly Mohawk, Blue Back,* pops up in her lonely cabin...
...review of Malcolm Muggeridge's The Earnest Atheist (TIME, March 8) gives an excellent précis of the book, which is an attack on the integrity of Samuel Butler. Because it is an attack, and there are many people who believe in Butler's integrity, I feel that some account should have been given of his virtues and some correction made of Muggeridge's misstatements...