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...Cuchi, 25 kilometers northwest of Saigon, some 40 demonstrators-many of them women and children-were killed last week by a hail of rifle fire from a Vietnamese army post, and the Communists got some useful martyrs. But though the triggers were pulled by Vietnamese, the real murderers were Communist agents provocateurs. Goaded and egged on by the Viet Minh, the demonstrators had besieged the post, alternately insulting, threatening and cajoling the Vietnamese soldiers to desert...
...Each day that goes by," said Symington, "sees the relative military strength of the U.S. and its allies becoming weaker as against the growing strength of the Communists." For example: "The incredible destructive power of hydrogen warheads makes it possible to destroy a nation by launching a hail of ballistic missiles against it ... The most ominous aspect of this new weapon is that once launched, there is no defense against it. Such a missile does not depend upon electronic guidance as it approaches its targets, and therefore it cannot be thrown off course by electronic jamming . . . Will the Communists have...
...week since leaving the White House. First, he hopped up to Milwaukee to accept a $5.000 Steinway grand piano (for the library) from the American Federation of Musicians. On a convention platform bristling microphones, while some 1,100 professional musicians grinned and bore it, Amateur Pianist Truman banged out Hail, Hall, the Gang's All Here on the gift instrument, with the nation's most loose-lipped trumpeter, Musicians' Czar James Caesar Petrillo, bleating what passed for the south half of a duet going north. Then Truman tinkled through a performance of Paderewski's Minuet...
...Tashmajdan Stadium, in a tournament that was tougher on the officials than on the players, Russia's women's basketball team overpowered the Bulgarian women 65-46, won the European championship for the fourth year in a row. The referees called 63 fouls, ducked a hail of gravel chucked by indignant spectators, and were seriously disconcerted by the buxom Russians, who wore no brassieres under their uniforms...
...There are those of the South (I am white) who hail the . . . decision . . . I have genuine faith that the Talmadges and the like will be trampled into oblivion with this new mode of thought that the young intellectuals of the South are developing...