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...week ending April 18, casualties for both sides reached 1,710, highest in any week since the war began. At a U.S.-run training camp near Trunglap (which means, ironically, "neutrality"), only 25 miles northwest of Saigon, the Viet Cong ambushed and killed an American sergeant and seven Vietnamese rangers...
Hitler's press boss was Max Amann, a stupid, brawling dwarf bullock who had been Corporal Hitler's wartime company sergeant. Amann had assembled a press empire of 59 dailies even before the party took power. For the sake of Nazi recognition, scores of nonparty papers agreed to print Nazi propaganda free and to take no ads from Jews. By way of disaster insurance, dozens of German advertisers cynically bought space in official Nazi organs. The German people were partly to blame, for they did not support the few honest papers that warned what Hitler...
...high barricades of barbed wire. Machine guns were mounted on Ferret armored cars, and the "Van Doos" (a corruption of Royal Vingt-Deuxième Régiment) organized themselves into platoons and companies as more and more troop-laden planes dropped out of the Mediterranean sky. Mess Sergeant Roméo Saulnier, bent over the first three stoves set up, said, "I've got orders to cook supper for 400 men tonight, lunch for 600 tomorrow, and for 800 next...
...visit to Mexico? The men are not close friends. In fact, the meeting at Melun was the first time De Gaulle had laid eyes on Ben Bella since World War II in Italy, when le grand Charles had pinned a military medal on Ben Bella, then an obscure master sergeant in the Free French forces...
Married. Lady Jeanne Campbell, 35, only daughter of the Duke of Argyll's first marriage, newspaper columnist for her maternal grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook; and John Sergeant Cram III, 31, South Carolina gentleman farmer descended from Financier Jay Gould and Philanthropist Peter Cooper; both for the second time (she divorced Novelist Norman Mailer in December); somewhere in Maryland...