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...dusk all had passed the ambush point except the heavy armor of the rear guard, when suddenly a new wave of Reds jumped the road, recapturing the ambush area and cutting off the rear guard. Bucking their way through in the darkness, the tanks reached the center of the ambush area, with hundreds of suicidal Viet Minh swarming aboard with potato-masher stick grenades and plastic explosive charges. Some Viet Minh threw themselves under the grinding treads with armfuls of explosives. Six armored halftracks were destroyed and their crews slaughtered...
...blind, lumbering tanks had to clean the antlike Viet Minh off each other with machine-gun fire. Almost overwhelmed, the rear guard called for artillery support. The French gunners laid down a skillful box barrage which enclosed the tanks in a wall of fire. As the tanks moved forward, so did the barrage, until finally the column broke into the clear. The battle had lasted 14 hours...
...worthy to address newspaper publishers . . . for, as you realize more clearly than anyone else, you newspapermen already know everything . . . There s no subject on which you don't consider yourselves experts. You can rear back any time of the day or night and give out the very last word on the exploding of the hydrogen bombs, on old tribal customs in Afghanistan . . . on the making of cheese or women . . . on religion, politics, music, art, football, yoga-anything . . . Mark even knows how to get every place he's going . . . I've driven miles and miles in the wrong...
...Department, of Agriculture. All other agencies combined paid less than 3% of the total. This year, as usual, the biggest chunk of cash was spent on the physical sciences ($255 million). Second: the biological, medical and agricultural sciences ($70 million). Social sciences brought up the rear with $17 million...
...police culminated two-and-a-half months of investigation at 2:10 p.m. with a raid on the central headquarters at the third floor of a 861 Washington St. apartment house. In order to gain entry, one officer had to smash in the rear door of the flat with a sledge hammer...