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...time the quiet valley offers the shelter of illusion. Then, fearful that another army will discover the refuge, the captain leads his troops out through the pass. He returns alone, mortally wounded and grimly amused at the irony of his end: the general he had intended to support has won, but in the confusion of fighting, the captain has thrown his company into battle with the loser. "Yes, I can see the joke of that," says Vogel, also wounded. "You might put it that one always does join the wrong army...
...blunt-nosed casing for the fuel it encloses. It lies on its side in a heavy steel cradle and pokes its enormous thrust against a vertical rock face sheathed with concrete. Instruments record vibrations, temperatures and the stress in its metal skin, but human watchers do not shelter in a blockhouse. They watch the tests from open hillsides. "Distance is cheaper," they say, "than concrete and periscopes...
...attractive of all is the tuition, scaled from $3 a month for low-income families to $50 for the wealthiest (average: $10). Even the top fee, which only four families pay. is well below the $80 a month that each student costs. For the school supplies not only food, shelter, books, learning and character, but also every stitch of clothing. "Our Soviet government," says Elite Hatcher Petrov proudly, "does not economize on children...
Sandy-haired, sad-faced Francis Schaef fer, 47, and his handsome, mission-raised wife, Edith, 41, call their house L'Abri (shelter), and in the 4½ years they have been there, an "Abri Fellowship" has grown up to unite their former visitors and supporters. The Schaeffers depend on contributions; they accept no money from their church, and the young people who come are guests of L'Abri. For this reason, Missionary Schaeffer does not advertise. "There's no sense in turning this chalet into a free home for ski bums," he explains. News of the mission...
Allowed to sleep in an "unbearably" cold tent with insufficient blankets, Singh was awakened for another interrogation of 9½ hours and told he would not get adequate shelter until the examination was concluded to Chinese satisfaction. With this stimulus to speed and agreement, Singh gave precise details of the arms, function and organization of India's border patrols, his own operations prior to the ambush, and the location of Indian check posts throughout Ladakh. As a reward, he got some padded cotton clothing, which did not fit. At this point the Chinese set out to rewrite history...