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Greed & Folly. For all his excellence in telling the story, Historian Runciman finishes with a startling piece of moralizing hindsight: "The historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at ... the limitations of human nature. There was so much courage and so little honor, so much devotion and so little understanding. High ideals were besmirched by cruelty and greed, enterprise and endurance by a blind and narrow self-righteousness; and the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which...
...Under overcast skies the races were run off before a boisterous crowd of 3,000 Pennsylvanians and their dates, most of whom were dressed in straw hats, Bermuda shorts, and high socks. Sheets of rain had fallen during the morning but by race time at 3:30 p.m. the air was clear and the river smooth. The moderate current and lack of wind prevented any fast times...
Despite the gray, overcast weather and the sparse crowd which gave spacious Braves Field almost a ghost-like atmosphere, the two local colleges turned in some exceptional early season baseball...
...DDay: Overcast and grey. At 1600, Giap orders gunfire against the five remaining French strongpoints in the 12-by-4-mile valley. At 1630, black-garbed Communist infantry come at a run for the southern strongpoint. It is only a feint. Half an hour later 105-mm. fire hits the northeast and southeast strongpoints, and Communist infantry moves into trenches near the French barbed wire...
...bloodstained Indo-China valley with a barely pronounceable name was transformed last week from a scratch on the map into one of the most important places in the world. At Dienbienphu, a faraway fortress overcast with gun smoke, 15,000 French troops fought a battle that could decide the fate of all Southeast Asia. Shock waves from the battle swept over Asia and Europe, endangering the French Cabinet, threatening the prospects of the European Army, menacing the unity of the Western Big Three as they prepare to meet the Big Two of Communism-Russia and China-at the Geneva Conference...