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Bombardment at Headquarters. For two days and one night the battle sputtered and flamed along the Boulevard Gallieni, a one-mile thoroughfare between Saigon's European quarter-which was ringed off from the shouting by the big French-colonial army-and the cluttered Chinese suburb of Cholon. The nub of the action was a cream-colored Vietnamese headquarters, defended by 100 Nationalists beneath a darkening pall of smoke. From there, TIME Correspondent John Mecklin reported...
...know," was the reply. "I suppose that all the money for maids is now tied up in PBH or something, but they could at least buy us brooms, they don't cost much." He held up his grimy hands to her. "My fingers are worn to the nub from trying to get things clean. You know, the mechanical sweepers are all right, but they only come around once a week...
...slumped down and started dusting the phonograph with the nub of a finger or two. Griselda sighed and went over to the door...
...nub of McCarthy's controversy with Eisenhower and with a growing number of Republican Senators is his insistence that his crusade against Communists justifies any tactics, including those that disrupt the executive branch of the Government. Contrary to law, Roughneck Joe McCarthy ("I am going to kick the brains out of anyone who protects Communists") gets classified information from executive-branch underlings, boasts that he will continue to do so, and dares the Justice Department to indict...
...Geneva, and for a basic understanding of U.S. policy, the nub of Nixon's speech was that the U.S. and the free world could not afford any more losses to Communism in Asia, and that...