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...French have a good way to describe a tired army. They say it needs revalorizing. Since his arrival in Indo-China three months ago, General Henri Navarre has been revalorizing the French Union army by converting it from static defense to fluid offense. For his showpiece of fluidity, Navarre chose to attack a 15-mile string of Communist-infested Annamese villages, called by the laconic Legionnaires "The Street Without Joy," because of their long and bitter record of resistance...
...fluid situation which had developed in the Communist world since Stalin's death seemed to be just what the new U.S. administration was waiting for-a first-class internal crisis in the Soviet empire. This week Russian tanks alone maintained Communist rule in East Berlin. In Czechoslovakia, nearly half the miners in the North Bohemian coal fields refused to report for work. Rumors of wholesale rioting drifted out of Poland. In Hungary, a new Premier tried to placate the people with a promise to pay more attention to the welfare of farmers and consumers. Nervously, the Soviet government ordered...
Under the Le Mans rules, each car must carry its own spare parts, tools, tires. Pit stops for fuel, oil. water and brake fluid are allowed no oftener than every 28 laps. Under those stringent limitations, the three Italian Alfa Romeo entries were forced out within the first twelve hours...
...throat specialist, added another count to the indictment. One kind of deafness is increasing, he believes, as a result of the haphazard use of antibiotics in colds. If there is a middle-ear infection, the drugs may mask it, and then part of the ear fills up with fluid anyway. If this is not drained, it may solidify and impair hearing. The only solution, said Dr. Theobald, is to puncture the eardrum and remove the substance...
...Research at Dumbarton Oaks from 1941-44; Clarence I. Lewis '06, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, former president of the American Philosophical Association and author of "Mind and World Order"; Richard von Mises, Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics and internationally known for his work in fluid mechanics, elasticity, and statistical probability; and Chester L. Dawes, associate professor of Electrical Engineering, former vice-president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...