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...they led them away. They later took away our nurse, Miss de Galard.* She looked as unafraid as ever. I also saw the Viets taking General de Castries. He was wearing his mudstained battledress and his red overseas cap. He looked detached and impassive. He climbed into a jeep between two heavily armed Viet soldiers, and was driven away...
With Tryfus' patrol, I rode off in an armored halftrack, preceded by a jeep. The jeep's probing searchlight scanned the countryside. "Keep your heads down," said Tryfus as we approached a railroad bridge. Twice in the past year it had been mined. We waited for a train to pass, climbed aboard a gasoline-driven "handcar" and rolled down the track to inspect the railroad line. Suddenly, in the darkness, a pink flare leaped. We stopped and found a land mine, planted on the rails after the last train passed just a few minutes before...
...TIME, April 6. 1953), he found that Willys, in addition to the usual cost handicaps of an independent, had an extra one. It paid workers $2.31 an hour v. the $2.04 paid by the Big Three, which made it virtually impossible to compete or make money without the fat jeep contracts that kept it profitable during...
Silence in the Rain. Henderson and Ruck persisted, and their patience paid off. To Karatina barracks one day last month came "General" Kareba, with an offer to join China and help to end the war. Later to Nyeri stockade, riding in Henderson's jeep, came two representatives of scarfaced "Field Marshal" Russia, alias Dedan Kimathi, and four more from Mt. Kenya. The British released General Kareba to go back with Kimathi's men as a token of British good faith...
...where the countryside changes hands every night and where the peril of a road can be measured by whether it reopens each day at 7 or 9 or 10 a.m. All over the country each morning, as regularly as shaving, a handful of French or Vietnamese must venture in jeep, truck or tank down the roads, looking for mine or ambush before the buses and beer trucks and handcarts can travel, before the long lines of patient and straw-hatted coolie women, bamboo poles on their shoulders and heavy burdens hanging at each end, can begin their incessant dogtrot down...