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...guerrillas lugged the dismantled guns into positions on their backs, then set up the batteries under rock cover. To fill Viet Minh bellies, 50,000 Chinese coolies bicycled in relays down the 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...
...weather, construction, delays, and finally a complete shutdown in building kept the courts from being finished anywhere near their December 1 deadline. In mid-March the Long Island company which originally undertook construction ran into difficulties and called its workers...
Christmas comes to a certain area of Manhattan in mid-March. There, in the New Yorker Hotel and in the 23rd Street showrooms near Broadway, most of the nation's 1,500 toymakers gathered last week to show off some 200,000 toys that will hit the U.S. market next Christmas season. From plush lions that roar to vinyl dolls that burp, the toys are designed to win the notoriously fickle attention of U.S. children and, toymakers hope, to hike this year's toy sales 20% to $1.3 billion. The prospect of all these toys makes visions...
...Senate-House conference committee. In its final form, it calls for a reduction of $9.1 billion in individual income taxes and a drop of $2.4 billion in corporate taxes, with two-thirds of the cuts to take effect this year and the rest in 1965. Probably starting in mid-March, the payroll withholding rate will go down from the present 18% to 14%. That will immediately pump $800 million a month into the economy and amount to a weekly raise in take-home pay of $4.20 for a married worker earning $150 and claiming four dependents. Among the bill...
Although the official deadline for applying is Jan 1, Glimp said that late applications are considered up until the Committee meets in mid-March, so that "no boy who belongs here" will be denied a Harvard education...