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...give Red China an opening to step in on the disputed Indo-Tibet border, Prime Minister Nehru last week called on the Indian army to join Assam's armed police in an offensive operation against the rebels. Next day Naga terrorists kidnaped seven pro-government villagers in broad daylight, beheaded four of them. In the Assam hills warriors scornfully tore from their colorful costumes the dyed goat hair that they had substituted for human hair. Into its place, once more, went the real thing...
...Sergeant Stanley need not have volunteered for what turned out to be his last patrol; he was about to be rotated home, and he had proved himself more than once to be the bravest and most effective noncom in the company. To get through the surrounding Chinese in broad daylight, ford a river, get in touch with the Dutch and then return was a job no man in his right senses would ask for. It was typical of Stanley that he did. It was even more typical of him that he took the men he did: only two reliable oldtimers...
...British flyers, seamen and scientists who met and smashed what may well have been Nazi Germany's toughest and most ruthless service. The measure of U.S. unreadiness can easily be taken by anyone who remembers the near contempt with which German subs sank ships in broad daylight within sight of the East Coast. How quickly Allied brains and guts turned the tide can be read in Morison's triumphant figures: of nearly 13,000 ships that sailed the North Atlantic in convoy in 1944, only 13 were sent to the bottom...
Novelist Shaplen's setting is authentic. His Saigon is hot, and more oppressive than the heat is the sense of deceit, mistrust and danger. Communist terrorists hurl grenades into cafés in broad daylight. Harmless-looking old shopkeepers convert their shabby little stores into arms depots for Communist agents. A Chinese gambling-house operator runs weapons to the enemy. Counterespionage is apt at any time to burgeon into counter-counterespionage. At this game Adam Patch is about as subtle as a sand-lot quarterback. A Vietnamese doctor shows up, claiming to be a deserter from the Communists, with...
...size of a radio telescope is determined by the diameter of its "dish," a parabolic wire mesh which receives light waves. Radio telescopes have these advantages over optical telescopes: they can be used in daylight and in bad weather, and they "see" through interstellar dust, a factor making them particularly practical for observing the Milky Way. The larger the "dish," the better the definition of the subject observed...