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...looking at his watch. Joy bore the "Big Silence" (as U.N. reporters dubbed it) with fortitude. Finally, he suggested that, since the buffer zone question was at an impasse, the negotiators take up some other agenda item. Nam II refused. He would not even show Joy on a map whether or not he understood the U.N. concept of a defensible cease-fire line...
Soon a Polish army craft was on the fugitive's tail. By zigzagging through a cloud bank over the Baltic, the four managed to elude it, despite their slow speed (75 m.p.h.). They navigated by compass, without a map...
...Times was scooped on the fall of Vicksburg because its dispatch bearer got drunk along the way.) So timely were Times reports that General McClellan accused Raymond of aiding the enemy. The little general demanded that the paper be suppressed because it printed a detailed map of the defenses around Washington. Snapped Raymond: a similar map could be bought in any Washington bookstore. Nobody could intimidate Raymond. In the Draft Riots of '63, when surly crowds menaced the Times building, he manned a Catling gun himself...
When Mobilization Boss Charlie Wilson heard about the tangle he worked out a plan, went straight to the White House. Last week Harry Truman acted. He set up the Defense Materials Procurement Agency, transferred to it powers from all over the mobilization map. To boss DMPA (already being called "Dumpa" in Washington) he appointed Jess Larson, 47, ex-boss of the War Assets Administration and since 1949 chief of the General Services Administration...
Reports from Burma last week said that several thousands of Li's men recently thrust into lofty Yunnan (see map), at one point stabbing 50 miles deep. Communist regulars counterattacked sharply, last week reportedly engaged the Nationalists in skirmishes on a 6,000-foot-high plateau 200 miles southwest of Kunming, capital of Yunnan. In retaliation for the ready welcome which some of Yunnan's peasants gave the Nationalists, Communist executioners in the province shot 1,500 "traitors...