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...stronghold, isolated between the Red River delta and Laos, was even more a psychological than a military pivot of the war. The French seized the saucer last November, built it into a bastion with a tireless airlift and talked of sucking the forces of wily Communist General Vo Nguyen Giap into an attack that they felt might hurt him sorely. For Giap, on the other hand, Dienbienphu became a challenge; to reduce the fortress could well deal a deadly blow to France's resolve to fight on in Indo-China...
Aglow with "the phosphorescence of sexuality." Cathy keeps streaking over the horizon of this novel like a flying saucer pursued by satyrs. And yet no one could call The End of an Old Song a sexy or sordid story. Author John (The Way to Glory) Scott, who is literary editor of London's dignified Spectator, is simply not the kind of novelist who grapples with nymphomania like a Melville with a whale. Though interested in elemental things, he is more interested in the sound of his clear prose tinkling over them. Moreover, this time, his main theme...
...Saucerites-Forecasters who think business will drop in the first half, then pick up in the last half of the year, like the cross section curve of a saucer...
Cheered by such reports, the stock market went right on climbing. The Dow-Jones industrials average tacked on another 2.74 points to reach 292.39, within a whisker of the peak reached at the start of 1953. Some saucerites felt that the ride up the far slope of the saucer had already begun...
Last week the marines' flying saucer was identified: a new type of red blinker light on commercial airliners, stronger than those previously...