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...grow until we have as many members as the comsymps, we can rout the communist conspiracy," Welch declared. "But the Communists have beguiled many good Americans into attacking the Birch Society," he warned...
...winning time of McCurdy's top threesome was an unimpressive 28:09, but it was good enough to rout all serious competition. A Penn runner, Bill Rich, did manage to finish fourth, but he was followed by varsity runner John D'arcy and Pete Huvelle in the fifth and sixth slots...
...from dark to dark, from month to month in the long hot season to keep their fields alive. From sun to sun they sleep on a bed of rushes in a hut of reeds. In the autumn they harvest a few sacks of sweet potatoes. In the winter they rout stumps out of the hard land to increase their pitiful sum of soil. In the spring they reap the winter wheat and thresh it with a flail as old as agriculture. In the summer they climb down to the boat, row across to the mainland, trudge off to the spring...
...heroism of soldiers and marines dying on nameless hillsides in an alien land. Like many another marine. Leckie has a low opinion of General Douglas MacArthur, whom he charges with making a fatal mistake in splitting his forces for the dash to the Yalu River. Result was the disastrous rout of U.S. forces by the Chinese Communists, so poignantly described by S.L.A. Marshall in The River and the Gauntlet. But Leckie believes that the war was worth its high cost of 33,629 American lives. "In Korea." he writes, "invasion was repelled, and in such manner as to remind...
Into Thomson-Houston inner offices to rout out anarchy came new managers. Among them was Jacques Dontot, 46. a flexible but outspoken engineering graduate of France's prestigious Ecole Polytechnique, who had risen to technical director of the nationalized Saar coal mines, but was casting around for "a different working silhouette." Dontot, who became managing director of Thomson in 1960 after only four years with the company, is described by his colleagues as a "managerial genius." His rebuttal: "You don't need genius in top management. You need ponderation. You need to accept good news and bad with...