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Sharp fighting did break out, however, when the French combined this landing with an overland attack towards the new beachhead, from the general direction of Saigon. The objective: to winkle the Communists out of the.hills, back down to the French on the coast. The veteran French battalion from Korea moved expertly through the limestone hills, followed by a green, Vietnamese nationalist division, 10,000 strong. They surprised a Communist encampment and inflicted considerable losses. Loyal mountain tribesmen in loincloths attacked a Communist post with their coup coup knives and captured a Communist flag...
Competitor Cramer, accompanied by his wife and a Dutch co-driver and driving a Willys-Overland sedan, started from Athens, negotiated the relatively crude roads of Greece and Yugoslavia with little difficulty (unlike another Athens starter, Englishman Harry Sutcliffe, whose little Morris was badly shaken up by a large Yugoslavian sheepdog that rammed it head-on). Professor Cramer's trouble came in France. In the mountainous stretch between Le Puy and Valence, where swirling snows blinded drivers two years ago, the Cramers fell victim to the commonest of all traffic hazards, bungled directions, when they were sent down...
...ancient African tribes gave to corn. He found that many of them called it by the name of the tribe to the north or the northeast of them. So he concludes that American corn was not brought to coastal Africa by the Spanish or Portuguese but that it came overland from the north, probably introduced by earlier Arab navigators...
...Willys-Overland...
...Moon. The cost of covering the coronation for both networks will be nearly $500,000, with General Motors bankrolling NBC and Willys-Overland helping to pick up the tab for CBS. For a while, network circles buzzed with rumors of prodigies: NBC was planning to transmit a live story of the coronation by bouncing TV images off the moon, and thence across the Atlantic; CBS was ready to hurl its film from London to the U.S. by the latest thing in guided missiles. As of this week, both networks were apparently ready to settle for plain jet planes...