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That the French colonial contraption is weak I never doubted, but now I have also seen how brutal and cowardly it is. For an action such as you described in "Running the Gauntlet" to be perpetrated by a civilized people seems incredible. After this revelation I firmly side with the Arab patriots, and hope that they will soon send the French packing back to their homeland...
...hill in Port Lyautey's medina is a dusty sheep market. Legionnaires drove the Arab men there and herded them under the muzzle of a Patton tank. A dozen policemen formed a gauntlet, six on either side. One by one, the Arabs were thrust forward, each with his hands on his head...
Like most successful old fiction pros, Novelist James Street (The Velvet Doublet, The Gauntlet) knows the value of a timely yank at the heartstrings. In his latest, Goodbye, My Lady, the yanking is continuous. His hero is Skeeter, a likable 14-year-old who lives with his illiterate uncle in a shack on the edge of a Mississippi swamp. Life is simple to the point of vacuity-a little huntin', a little fishin', some wood cuttin' when the groceries run low. "Swamp sprout" that he is, Skeeter dreams mostly of a "li'l old" shotgun. Uncle...
...commanded all six remaining French strong points of the fortress as well as its two shell-pocked airstrips. French planes and helicopters could not get down tp evacuate more than a few of Dienbienphu's wounded. French patrols, water parties and couriers had to run a deadly daytime gauntlet. French pilots chalked such notes as "best wishes" and "May your buttocks be scorched" on their bombs, and flew three missions a day against the Red emplacements. But they got poor results through the heavy flak, the camouflage and the mist...
Four Horsemen. Republican Chairman Leonard W. Hall hurled the first gauntlet in the presence of his national committee, which assembled in Washington in honor of Abraham Lincoln, the G.O.P.'s centennial and the opening of the 1954 election campaign. "I sometimes wonder," said Hall, warming to his assignment, "whose interests these left-wingers think they are serving by their incessant talk of slump, recession and depression." Hall said that they were silent in 1950, when unemployment was double what...