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...furiously, shells bursting in the paddies, the artillery fire directed by an observation plane circling overhead. Like traffic waiting for a train to pass, long lines of cars stretched from points about two miles apart where they had been stopped by troops." Shortly thereafter Mecklin was to report at firsthand just such a highway battle, typical of IndoChina's hit-and-run war. Accompanying General Rene Cogny, he took part in an inspection tour of Namdinh and Binh-luc. The following day, Mecklin risked mortars and snipers to cover an armored operation which leapfrogged out to rescue two besieged...
Columnist Sokolsky became involved with Communism a long time ago. Born in Utica, N.Y., the son of a rabbi, he graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism and was so attracted by the Russian Revolution that he went to Russia in 1917 to see it firsthand. In Petrograd he got a job editing the English-language Russian Daily News. But after the Bolsheviks seized control from the Kerensky government, he quickly became disillusioned with the revolution and fled to China. There he worked for English-language newspapers, later became a special correspondent, whose reports appeared in U.S. and British dailies...
...readers now have a chance to take a look at Rosenzweig's work firsthand. One of his earlier theological works, Understanding the Sick and the Healthy (The Noonday Press; $3), has just been published in English. Last year, in Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought (Schocken-Farrar, Straus & Young; $6), Biographer Nahum N. Glatzer, an old friend of Rosenzweig, turned out a study of his career largely drawn from Rosenzweig's own writings...
...assigned to cover part of the trip. Rather than take the entire six-week tour. Copps flew west to pick up the Prime Minister and party at the halfway point, follow him through India and Ceylon and to the Canadian troops in Korea. The result was some good firsthand reporting and a thorough workout for Copps...
...Giuseppe Pella's Cabinet. Fanfani was Minister of Interior, and there got firsthand experience in policing Italy's rambunctious Communists. When Pella fell out with his party, it was Fanfani who pushed for the showdown, and was ready to step in (TIME...