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Problem No. 1 was Giap's artillery. It was considerably better than the French had anticipated. Red 105-mm. gun crews and their Chinese instructors commanded all six remaining French strong points of the fortress as well as its two shell-pocked airstrips. French planes and helicopters could not get down tp evacuate more than a few of Dienbienphu's wounded. French patrols, water parties and couriers had to run a deadly daytime gauntlet. French pilots chalked such notes as "best wishes" and "May your buttocks be scorched" on their bombs, and flew three missions a day against...
DDay: Communist Commanding General Vo Nguyen Giap opens fire against Dienbienphu's two airstrips, supply dumps, parked aircraft and battalion-command posts. At 1700 hours, he concentrates 105-mm. fire-one shell every six seconds-against two French battalions on top of two 1,500-ft. hills to the northeast and the north of Dienbienphu. The French call these hill positions Beatrice and Gabrielle. A direct hit knocks out the For eign Legion command post on Beatrice. De Castries radios Indo-China command in far-off (180 miles) Hanoi: "The attack has begun...
Three 3-Ds. Two new 35-mm., 3-D cameras will be put on sale shortly by Chicago's Three Dimension Co., a division of Bell & Howell. One is the American-made Stereo Vivid (about $150); the other is the German-produced Stereo Colorist (about $100). Eastman Kodak Co. plans to introduce a new stereo camera this summer. Price: "under...
...fantasy about Hitler. Still on a shoestring, he went to England, with a seven-man company produced The Stranger and A Prince for Cynthia, a haplinesque story of a stenographer's daydream. In Paris, on a visit to a Left Bank nightclub, he saw a showing of 16-mm. colored slides drawn by local schoolchildren, promptly bought the set to make Martin and Gaston...
...asked him if he felt that the film was within our educational field and if it would in any way conflict with his schedule. His answer to me was, "I wish I could use it, it is a great movie, but it is not available to me on 35 mm film, therefore I see no objection." On the basis of this statement I went ahead and booked and showed the film...