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...narrow mountain footpaths, each straining under a load of 600 lbs. of sacked rice. From November to mid-March, while his 60,000 guerrilla troops sparred with patrols from the fortress, Guerrilla General Giap quietly laid his noose around Dienbienphu. Then one morning Viet Minh artillery boomed a death knell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: DIENBIENPHU: Could It Happen Again? | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...Trade laws in 1958. France outlawed price fixing ten years ago, and in Italy there are as many prices for most items as there are stores selling them. Only three diehards in Western Europe still have Fair Trade laws-Switzerland, The Netherlands and Great Britain. Last week the death knell of Fair Trade sounded in Britain, giving British consumers the liveliest field day they have enjoyed in decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Politics & Prices | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...steel of its own, The Netherlands naturally wants to keep prices low. The Dutch-Italian intransigence completely deadlocked last week's meeting of the national ministers, and French Minister of Industry Michel Maurice-Bokanowski left the Brussels conference room with the other ministers exclaiming: "This means a death knell for the whole European steel industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Uncommon Authority | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...celluloid banality are willing to believe. We do not want to escape into a euphoric dreamland, but want to face life as it is. Unless Hollywood realizes this fact, the New Wave artists who can communicate reality, and communicate it meaningfully, may well sound Hollywood's death knell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1963 | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...Poon motion claimed that by naming the crossing Lampoon Square, the City Council would "sound the death knell of one of the greatest threats to the liberty of the citizenry of the U.S.A.: namely, Appelation Without Representation...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: 'Turn Lampoon Into Rest Room': Vellucci | 2/12/1963 | See Source »

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