Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indo-China the Communist Viet Minh forces were closing in on the key city of Hanoi. Top U.S. military men were resigned to the imminent fall of Hanoi, of the whole Red River delta and of all northern Indo-China. Any possibility of a U.S. effort to save the North had been abandoned. It was too late. At the Pentagon the discussion had turned to another kind of effort: how to evacuate the 300,000 non-Communist residents and troops in the area. This would require some 130 ships, would rival Dunkirk in its drama and scope...
...General Giap last week concentrated eight regular Viet Minh divisions against the 300-mile edge of the Red River Delta. The French, anxiously awaiting reinforcements from Europe and North Africa, still believed they could hold. The position on the eve of the Delta battle: Communists: Giap has deployed two infantry divisions and one heavy-weapons division against the Delta's northern rim; he has two divisions ready in the south...
Giap has also infiltrated the Delta with the equivalent of three more divisions...
...limerick's lady of Kent, according to Louisville Times Managing Editor Norman Isaacs, 46, is not very different from many a newsman. Writing in the current issue of Quill, monthly magazine of the professional journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi. Editor Isaacs charged that more and more newsmen are succumbing to the compromising blandishments of pressagents, promoters, politicians and others whose objective with newsmen is always the same: to influence what is printed. Asked Isaacs: "How can we claim integrity when newspapers employ men whose services are for sale to outsiders...
...Segundo plant in Los Angeles this week, Douglas Aircraft Co. rolled out its latest attack bomber for the Navy, a jet called the A4D and a member of an unusual new family of U.S. warplanes. The A4D, with stubby, delta wings, is light and uncomplicated,* weighs only 8,300 Ibs. unloaded compared to 11,800 for its predecessor, the AD Skyraider...