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U.S. arms, transport and communications equipment. In the ancient walled city of Hue in central Viet Nam, a TIME correspondent last week watched barefooted Vietnamese peasants standing in the General Issue line with mouldy rifle straps, long underwear and heavy shoes dangling from their arms. Across the square, twelve-week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Making an Army | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

The Crimson's passing attack, which was sloppy at the outset, functioned with precision in the last three periods.

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Varsity Lacrossemen Beat Middlebury, 17-2 | 4/21/1951 | See Source »

Shortly after the boats passed under the bridge, the Crimson began to close slightly the two length lead Cambridge had built up. As the shells skimmed by the Jordan Marsh building, approximately the mile and a half mark, the Crimson had sliced the visitors' margin to a few feet less...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Cambridge Shell Beats Crimson; B.U. Takes 3rd Over M.I.T. | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

Three-Year-Old Prodigy. Israel is already the most highly industrialized Middle Eastern nation: one-third of its Jewish working population is employed in industry (the same proportion as of U.S. industrial workers). During World War II, about 600 new plants were built to supply machine tools, munitions, precision instruments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Israel's Independence Issue | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

As a production, Jouvet's "L'Ecole des Fommes" is extraordinarily rich. Playing Arnolphe in Molicre's great comedy, Jouvet acts with amazing precision, clarity, and style. His performance and those of the entire company are the results of a complete knowledge of the play, gained from years of experience...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: From the Pit | 3/21/1951 | See Source »

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