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...could win this war in three months if I could get two-thirds of the people on my side." He had a directive read, promising that "Malaya should in due course become a fully self-governing nation . . . within the British Commonwealth." At Kuala Lumpur, Templer took over the hilltop King's House which is the traditional home of the High Commissioner. This was where he, his wife and two children (Jane, 18, and Miles, 6) would be spending many months. A practical soldier, he ordered barbed wire to be set up around the house. Returning later and finding...
They died by the dozens, but still they came on. By 3 a.m. they had overrun two hilltop posts on the perimeter's north face, finishing off the Moroccan and Thai defenders with knives, bayonets, machetes, grenades. Within minutes the Viet Minh were putting mortar fire on Nasan's vital airstrip. Next day the attackers had backed off of one hill, and French paratroopers recaptured the other...
...Their Heads!" At 8 that morning, the withdrawing French Legionnaires had an answer to that question. Hidden in the jungle at the road's edge and concealed in the ruins of an old Chinese fort on a nearby hilltop, the 308th was watching the approach of the French column. Now, over a 2,000-yard strip of the road, they let the French have it. Lobbed hand grenades turned trucks into burning wrecks, while rifle and machine-gun fire blasted down the Legionnaires. Then the Viet Minh leaped into the road with daggers and machetes. The French column...
...good citizens of quiet Lakeville, Conn, go to bed early-with one exception. But even the rare, late-homecoming villager is no longer surprised at the single globe of light shining from the ungainly green-and-yellow hilltop house which broods over the main street. He knows, along with those of his neighbors who have seen it, homeward bound from a church supper or Saturday-night movie, that Mme. Wanda Landowska is at her devotions: her altar, the harpsichord...
Active and Passive. For Dr. Hammon, the progress reported marked a hilltop on a long, hard road. Ohio-born, he took mission training in Pittsburgh and supplemental work in Brussels, then shipped to the Belgian Congo for four years as a medical missionary. Not until he was 28 did he enter Harvard Medical School. Many of his recent years as an epidemiologist have been spent in trying to persuade his colleagues (including those at the National Foundation) that gamma globulin was worth a major trial. Lately, and in the tests themselves, Dr. Hammon has had great help from Philadelphia...