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...home is something else," Virginia began the rambling essays she wrote for her boarding-school teacher. "When you are little and ugly somebody carries you in church on a pillow, and you come out a child of God and inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven. They pour water on your head and that's a sacrament. When you are twelve you walk back in yourself with your best dress and shoes on, and you walk up to the Bishop, and he stands up, and you kneel down, and he mashes on your head and you are an Episcopal. Then...
...people of Vietnam are not satisfied with the rule of Diem and therefore they do not resist the guerilla tactics of the Vietcong. Soliven warned that "You can pour money into South East Asia but if the people are not in favor of the government, money will be of no use in resisting the communists." The United States has been content to send billions of dollars to Vietnam, without gaining the loyalty of the people, he claimed...
...many casualties as the South Vietnamese and the amount of captured Viet Cong equipment is rising. Viet Cong defections are on the increase, and Viet Cong terror tactics against the Montagnards (mountain tribesmen), who have been indifferent to Diem's government, have caused thousands of them to pour down into government territory to volunteer for military training...
...Were Dead." Wilson's eye from now on will be mostly upon the amazing steel mill that sprang like a jack rabbit from the East Texas piney woods. Built by the Government during World War II to produce pig iron. Lone Star had yet to pour any metal when V-J day arrived. Soon after the war, the unpromising one-furnace mill was sold for $7,500,000 to an optimistic group of Texas businessmen. To run it, they chose Germany, a onetime schoolteacher and salt packer who had grown wealthy as an oilfield wildcatter. Borrowing from the Reconstruction...
Last week the butter was being spread a little thinner. Since March, steel production has slipped from 82% of capacity to 55%, and dozens of steel furnaces have been banked from Pittsburgh to Buffalo. This week U.S. steelmakers will pour barely 1,600,000 tons-just about what Russia will produce...