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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ammunition dump went off, or a dull buzz in the sky where the French C475 were keeping their death watch. It was a graveyard world down there, the French pilots reported, a tornup world of broken stones and cluttered bunkers, while around it the jungle would soon regain its ancient inscrutability. For 56 nights and days the battle had gone on, down there in the wasteland. This was how it ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The Fall of Dienbienphu | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Yang, who will represent his country next week at the Geneva Conference, stated that once the Communists "close the fence" around Asia, the free world cannot hope to regain entrance. "We must unite to stop this monster," he concluded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Korean Ambassador Asserts U.S. Future Lies in Area of Pacific | 4/21/1954 | See Source »

...evident that the Divinity School should easily recover and regain its status not only here, but in comparison with the other centers of theological training...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Religion at Harvard: To Teach or Preach? | 4/17/1954 | See Source »

...with Harvard's libraries, prestige, faculty, proximity to cultural and metropolitan Boston, and relations with nearby denominational schools of theology, the Divinity School had the potential to rival, if not surpass these other schools, and also to regain equal footing with the other graduate schools of the University...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Religion at Harvard: To Teach or Preach? | 4/17/1954 | See Source »

Stokes said yesterday that "the Council is very strongly behind the ROTC students . . . and will do everything it can to help them regain their commissions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Expected To Back AFROTC Commission Fight | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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