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Mecklin's bid to visit the besieged garrison was flatly rejected. He was forced to cover the news by constant vigilance at French army headquarters in the Citadelle, by haunting the lobby of the Metropole Hotel, by quizzing legionnaires at the Taverne Royale sidewalk cafe...
...Guatemalans have no spunk!" gibed Señora Arbenz. Four months later, by way of answer, Arbenz and 13 others shot down the commander of Guatemala City's Guardia de Honor fort, won over the garrison and began shelling the capital's other two forts. A lucky hit on a powder magazine won the day spectacularly for Arbenz & friends. He and Colonel Francisco Javier Arana got a democratic constitution written and ran off a free election. It was won handily by Juan José Arévalo, a Guatemalan intellectual just back from exile in Argentina...
...Oppenheimer was represented (without fee) by the Manhattan firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and by Herbert Marks, onetime general counsel for the AEC. Famed Constitutional Lawyer John W. Davis, fresh from his defeat in the school segregation cases, joined in writing an appeal brief to the AEC, which has final jurisdiction in the case...
...Dienbienphu. The French were pulling back from their antique forts and were concentrating in mobile groups at centers like Namdinh. The French redeployment was no simple matter: Communist guerrillas had often worked so closely around the forts that full-scale offensive operations were needed to withdraw a two-platoon garrison. The day after the fanon ceremony, Cogny had to send 2,000 men, 200 vehicles and 15 tanks to rescue 110 Vietnamese infantrymen from Doaithan and Thanhne, a couple of surrounded forts less than 20 miles from Namdinh. Cabled TIME Correspondent John Mecklin, who rode with the French column...
...default in the short story class. In The Great Rake, Allen Grossman manipulates six words, cities, turn threat, casement, grass, world, into a poetic whole which is the best piece of creative work in the issue. As for the other poetry, two pieces by Walter Kaiser, from the Garrison Prize Poems, reveal a fine sense of imagery and a fluid style. Winifred Hare has written a sonnet...