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...arms, transport and communications equipment. In the ancient walled city of Hue in central Viet Nam, a TIME correspondent last week watched barefooted Vietnamese peasants standing in the General Issue line with mouldy rifle straps, long underwear and heavy shoes dangling from their arms. Across the square, twelve-week recruits drilled with precision, their slouch hats at a jaunty angle...
...that good porter could be made only with water from London's Thames River, Arthur Guinness disagreed. In 1759, he signed a null lease on the St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin, which used spring water. While other brewmasters took advantage of porter's dark hue to hide impurities swimming around in their vats, Guinness insisted on "none but the best ingredients...
Most combat men of World War II saw only their tiny private areas of tension and boredom, explosively punctuated by sudden death. But cameramen in every theater were seizing the embattled moment on film, and artist-correspondents were recording bits of the war's hue and heroism on canvas. LIFE'S Picture History of World War II fits 726 such vivid fragments into a monumental mosaic covering every important aspect of the war and putting it all in sharp, balanced historical perspective...
Like the Earl of Gloucester, the Cambridge City Council might have blamed the discord which besets the country on the late eclipse in the moon. For as the moon darkened in the earth's shadow Monday night, it took on a slightly reddish hue...
When the story got out, there was a hue & cry about "white man's justice." Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) LaFarge and his Association on American Indian Affairs appealed the case to Idaho's Supreme Court on the ground that the defendants were "not competent" to plead guilty without lawyers. Last week the court voided District Judge Albert Morgan's sentence, ordered a new trial. But perhaps the case would be dropped. The people of Idaho, thought Prosecutor O'Donnell (as surprised as anyone at the severity of the sentence), "don't want these Indians prosecuted...