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...averages hung like an invisible executioner over the rude Dionne farmhouse near the village of Callander, Ont. on the morning of May 28, 1934. The odds againsf the birth of quintuplets were 41.6 million to one. The odds that all would live for long were even greater. Three of the baby girls were delivered by midwives before Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe arrived to deliver Marie and Emilie; he never could recall which was born last. In all they weighed about 12 Ibs. The doctor held little hope for their survival and left them with the midwives...
...defeat, some of the French commanders politely declined to receive visitors. "The colonel does not wish to be rude," said one bearded adjutant, "but he feels pain this morning for himself and for France. He would rather be alone." In victory, the Communists pressed sharp attacks against 50 French and Vietnamese outposts right up to the final truce deadline. In the campaign's last 24 hours they killed 21, wounded 64. Behind their lines, the Communists were already seizing hold: Vietnamese fleeing their rule reported that the Reds had executed several unfriendly village elders, had plundered Roman Catholic settlements...
...some 40 steel plants together, talked to everyone from shop foremen to open-hearth workers, and got along famously. Last week in Pittsburgh, McDonald, who looks more like a corporation tycoon than Ben Fairless himself, presented his union's wage demands to U.S. Steel. Ben Fairless got a rude surprise. The demands were far stiffer than expected...
...roof peered towards the rude enclosure where the village's sheep were penned. He was the shepherd of Mishmar Ayalon, and the Sten gun his crook. Since 1951, six of Mishmar Ayalon's men had been killed by bullets out of the night. The villagers took to arms and appointed as their captain Shmuel Schiff, a wiry youth with a hussar mustache...
...Army, Korea-class of '52) New York City Sir: I am offering, in suitably heroic couplets, a new indoctrination course for basic training in the U.S. Army: The chow is lousy and the beds are hard? You have to pull K.P. and extra guard? The corporal's rude, the sergeant impolite? The captain will not let you out at night? They will not let you have a private phone? It's clear, my boy, you don't know Mr. Cohn. You have a gripe? Don't tell the chaplain, son. You'll have...