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Cheers for Father. Cooper had not been back in Pulaski County long before he began to drift into local politics. Following Kentucky custom, candidates for office announce themselves on "court day," when, after the grand jury is impaneled, the judge recesses the court for the day and turns the courtroom over to the candidates. When John Sherman Cooper announced that he was running on the Republican ticket for the state House of Representatives in 1927, the crowd cheered. "They weren't cheering for me," says Cooper. "They were cheering for my father." He won without opposition...
...Events everywhere seem in conspiracy. As seen from Indo-China, Geneva is an impressive display of Communist strength and Western weakness. The humility of the French empire before Chou Enlai, the calculated susceptibility of London, the drift and confusion of Washington all contribute to the net effect of Red ascendancy, and that is in itself the decisive Red advantage in Indo-China...
...shielded lights in a special pattern to guide Banjo One, Two & Co. into the drop zone. From Luciole, the zone looked pitifully small-500 meters at the southern end of the main airstrip-and the slightest miscalculation of wind or navigation could make a parachute, whatever its cargo, drift into the barbed wire or the Viet Minh lines. At intervals of a few seconds, sometimes minutes, there were more lights-delicate white fragments in the blackness. Some were Viet shells hammering the French positions. Some were French shells reaching out into the foothills, where the Communists were gathering for their...
...Communists hold their gains in the northeast. All day, French and U.S. civilian pilots airdrop sorely needed supplies. Many supply loads drift into enemy lines. In the afternoon, French tactical air puts in two big strikes against the three fallen outposts in the northeast. At 1600, De Castries counterattacks the outposts, wins back two. But he cannot stay. French HQ claims the enemy lost 1,350 dead in the first 24 hours. French casualties are also high, and there is no evacuation for the wounded...
Mars floats seminaked, wrapped in its thin blue atmosphere as if in a transparent negligee. Yellow clouds, perhaps of dust, drift across it slowly. The white polar icecaps wax and wane with the swing of the Martian seasons, and its surface changes color, as if with seasonal vegetation...