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...Dienbienphu. I am sure God will protect me, and the poor soldiers who are waiting to be evacuated surely deserve that every effort should be made to get them out." At 3 a.m. next morning she landed at the besieged fort, still wearing her blue uniform skirt, a lock of hair flopping loosely across her forehead...
After an acorn fell on Chicken-licken's head, she convinced Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose, Gander-lander and Turkey-lurkey that the sky was falling. They all got so excited that Fox-lox ate them...
...best to re-establish an air of Western determination. He dismissed talk of partitioning Indo-China, a notion to which the British have clung. "The only partition I would favor," said Dulles, "would be to set apart a place way up north, about the size of this room, and lock up all the Communists there...
...exceed 60 m.p.h., Lancia, Nazzaro, Victor Hemery and Louis Chevrolet. But the toplofty language of the racing notices enraged many a Long Island citizen from the first: "All persons are warned against using the roads between the hours of 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. . . . Chain your dogs and lock up your fowl." By 1910, more than the local farmers were embattled. That year, the crowds were so large and unmanageable that four spectators were killed, and 22 more ended up in hospitals. That race sounded the knell of U.S. road racing for many a year...
Built-in Cop. An adjustable governor to limit car speeds is being turned out by the Automotive Safety Speed Control Corp. of Leominster, Mass. A cautious father, for example, can set and lock a dial on the dashboard at 40 miles an hour. If Junior tries to go faster, the ignition cuts out until he slows down. Pickup and climbing power are not affected until the dial limit is reached. Price: $20 installed...