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...French officer in Hanoi saw a moon-faced little Indo-Chinese looking at a book the Frenchman had left on his desk. "May I borrow the book?" the little man asked politely. "As soon as I have finished reading it myself," the Frenchman replied. The book: War in the Rear of the Enemy...
Last week the little man who had asked for the book (and who got another copy later) was somewhere in the jungle-clad mountains northwest of Hanoi directing the operations of a Communist guerrilla army which had just delivered a smashing attack on the French rear and was now withdrawing before French counterattacks. His name: General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Yap). Since the husky voice of Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh disappeared from the Viet Minh propaganda radio two years ago, the French have come more & more to believe that Giap is their chief antagonist in Indo-China...
...flying allies) are long and smooth, operations buildings snugly efficient, living quarters furnished down to the last monogrammed china dinner service.* Only snag about the old German system of air bases: it faces the wrong way. The best of the fields, i.e., those in the Reich's rear areas, have two irremediable defects: 1) they are uncomfortably close to the Iron Curtain-many of them less than ten minutes by jet; 2) their supply lines run back eastward toward Soviet Germany. "The U.S. Air Force in Germany," cracked a U.S. staff officer after the fields had been taken over...
Until recently, jet engines had only one essential moving part: the rotor. The forward end of its shaft spins an air compressor, which usually looks like a series of small windmills on the rear end of the shaft. High-pressure air from the last windmill goes to the combustion chambers where the fuel is burned. Hot gases formed there spin a turbine. The turbine turns the compressor, and the gases that pass through it shoot out the tailpipe in a high-speed jet whose reaction pushes the airplane forward...
...idea man and moving spirit behind Victory is Producer Henry ("Pete") Salomon, 35, wartime lieutenant commander who collaborated on Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's 14-volume naval chronicle of the war. Among his other accomplishments, Producer Salomon persuaded Rodgers and Bennett to compose what amounted to the longest score on record. With 17 of the 26 chapters now completed, Salomon and his dedicated team are pushing ahead, averaging a new installment every eleven days...