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Pathet Lao units, sometimes in regimental strength, have repeatedly attacked isolated outposts of the royal Laotian army (TIME. July 25). Communist food seizures, for shipment to Ho's hungry Red River Delta, have created such widespread famine that the U.S. International Cooperation Administration this month began air-dropping 1,000 tons of rice to the 100,000 peasants who inhabit the region. Even the International Control Commission, made up of representatives of Canada. India and Communist Poland -with its Polish members dissenting-has complained of Pathet Lao activities...
...week's end Johnson's staff was bundling up newspaper clips for shipment to the hospital, while their employer (still, said the doctors, seriously ill), with a contemptuous snort at his in-bed accessories, was getting up to use a portable commode...
...relatively few farmers who produce strong-gluten wheat are no help to the Government; since they get premium prices on the open market, most of them do not bother to enter the Government price-support program. Furthermore, the shortage of strong-gluten wheat is so great that whenever a shipment of it does go to a commercial elevator for Government storage, it rarely gets into a Government bin. Reason: elevator operators are free to sell the wheat at a premium, and replace it with equal-grade but weak-gluten wheat purchased at lower cost...
...temporary university, and at the last moment the Army causally added a law school. Captain Seavey was assigned to set it up. Given two old barracks to work in, he immediately--without authority--commissioned Army carpenters to make classrooms out of them and hi-jacked a shipment of chairs headed for GHQ. Acting with consummate nerve, Seavey even turned in an order for a thousand fountain pens to equip the students he did not yet have. (The Army was not that dumb, however; it refused.) Finally, just four days after the whole thing started, he was ready to begin teaching...
...airlines" over routes that parallel U.S. commercial airlines. If private international airlines had got 25% of the passenger volume and 50% of the mail, the commission estimated, the Government could have cut their subsidies by almost 88%. The commission also found that 85% of all Military Sea Transport Service shipment "could be carried in commercial ships...