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Oxcarts & Airdrops. The 7th's men, although equipped with parkas and other arctic garb, were suffering in the coldest weather anywhere along the Allied front. For a while their supply road to the east-coast port of Iwon was blocked by snowdrifts ten or twelve feet deep. They resorted to oxcarts and airdrops. Said Major General David Barr, cheerfully: "There is nothing to worry about." This week the supply road was reopened...
...black peasant garb. He was blond, blue-eyed, wore the beard often seen among French troops. He saluted, told me that he was a French noncommissioned officer in charge of a small detachment of Vietnamese militia. Theoretically they are uniformed troops, but so far the uniform doesn't go much beyond a floppy bush hat and an armband. At another place I saw men building one of those Beau Geste forts which dot the delta. They were using salvaged bricks, mortared with mud. When the lookout tower is high enough they will face it with a thin layer...
...they had begun to march down Unter den Linden toward the Lustgarten. The route of march was plastered with flags and big propaganda posters, depicting the standard Russian heroes (Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung) and evil-looking "dollar imperialists." One poster showed a trio of capitalist exploiters in Edwardian garb, complete with grey toppers. With the kids marched 10,000 grim-faced "Special Squads" of the People's Police, deeply tanned, obviously well trained-the 1950 version of Adolf Hitler's Storm Troopers. The marchers chanted versified slogans. Sample...
...lush Williams campus nestles in the Berkshires, and the visitor gets a feeling of complete isolation there. On House Party Weekend--most sensational social event of the year--the Willies really go to town. They break out large numbers of water pistols, were all kinds of collegiate garb, and import many good looking women, who also man water pistols and run around in white shirts to boot. Before and after the game, the lacrosse players speed to and fro in fast motor cars, many of them new convertibles. In the Williams milieu, the frat house is paramount at all times...
...Tickets. Like his leader Jinnah, and his rival Nehru, Liaquat is part Westerner, part Oriental. He is Oxford-educated. Except for his Persian lamb cap, he usually dresses in Western garb, wears loud Broadway ties. But there is in Liaquat none of the East-West conflict which has characterized Jinnah and Nehru; the tensions of the struggle to make a new nation have left no mark on him. Liaqyat is calmly determined to mingle in Pakistan the best of East and West. Says he: "The East has no tradition of democracy. It is our duty to build...