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Philippine army intelligence pieced together the story. A month before, the army had launched separate heavy attacks against the Communistic Huks who had been spreading terror through the provinces of Bataan and Laguna. Taken by surprise, the local Huk commanders ordered the guerrillas to retreat along narrow jungle paths into the mountains. All excess baggage had to be discarded On the way; that included children...
...Jimmy Clark, the P.G.A.'s Azalea Open golf tournament, with a record 16-under-par 272; at Wilmington, N.C. Clark, 30, an unknown pro from Laguna Beach, Calif, had won only $180 this season before hitting the $2,000 Azalea jackpot...
...well-rounded man. Paddy is part Navajo and part Spanish, stands 6 ft. 1 in., weighs 195, and has an outdoorsman's grizzled face. He runs a mountain sheep camp, works as a "head hunter" (labor recruiter) for carrot growers, talks Spanish, English, Navajo and the Laguna Indian language, has 14 children "and a lot of little fellows around the hogans" and is a dead shot with a rifle. He is also canny...
Died. Clarence A. Dykstra, 67, former President of the University of Wisconsin (1937-45), more recently provost of the University of California at Los Angeles; of a heart attack; in Laguna Beach, Calif. Dr. Dykstra acted as chief of the Selective Service System for a year, resigned in 1941 to head briefly the National Defense Mediation Board...
...perfectly obvious that the script writer for this film never got closer to the sands of Iwo Jima than Laguna Beach. He has, however, read several lousy war books, from which he has gleaned that 1.) all sergeants are tough, but underneath they are just like anyone else; 2.) the boys on the beachheads are more preoccupied with life around the corner drugstore back home than they are with the war immediately at hand; and 3.) the Marines have a great tradition...