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...remove a bullet lodged a quarter of an inch from a man's heart. In another, where the wounded man had a bullet through the lung, Surgeon Cyr saved his life by expertly sealing off the chest. Ashore, he performed skillful amputations by flashlight in a mud hut. In short, the navy's medical service was doing a good, alert...
...months in office, Magsaysay has brought about great changes in the Philippines. First he rebuilt the army, until then a demoralized, politics-racked conglomeration that couldn't fight its way out of a bamboo hut with a howitzer. Then he went after the Huks, who were so strong at the time that they were thinking seriously of seizing Manila itself. Last week, with his newly respectable and respected 40,000-man army, and some 10,000 reinforcements from the R.O.T.C. and reserves, he underwrote an election which, for all the bloodshed, gave free voice to the popular will...
...Stand. Last week Holy Man Bhave, 57, reached New Delhi, took up his stand before a small grass and bamboo hut on the edge of the square cement platform on which Gandhi was cremated. Here five members of the government's planning commission, introduced by Nehru listened as Bhave argued for 1) village wells, instead of huge irrigation projects, 2) village industries, instead of mass factories, 3) increased grain production from small farms. After attending a meeting, India's ascetic President Rajendra Prasad announced that he had given his Bihar estate to Bhave. In the United Provinces, where...
...loved the candy which the strange Americans who had come to Korea always seemed to carry. With his father, mother and 19-year-old sister, Kim lived in a thatched mud hut at Chosan, a village two miles south of Panmunjom and only a few hundred yards from the road along which candy-laden U.N. convoys were traveling to the U.N.-Communist liaison point. It was very convenient...
...been terrified by his jeep ride and refused flatly to get into another one. So a U.N. party marched him back to the family hut on foot, a half-hour trek along paddy dikes. Cried the overjoyed father: "Thank you a million times...