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...Students'] minds, and those of their parents, have been poisoned by the insidious cloud of anti-intellectualism which hangs over this country like a great shroud . . . Somehow, science has become identified in the minds of a great many people as a sort of super 'Svengali,' responsible for all our dilemmas...
Victory at the Arroyo. As the day darkened, the sky a shroud of smoke, the Nationalists concentrated four battalions and 18 armored cars against the sandbagged Binh Xuyen strongpoints. In the European quarter, French colonials and a few Americans sipped apéritifs on balconies and watched the distant show-most Frenchmen rooting for the terrorists and most Americans for Ngo Dinh Diem. Soon the news looked bad for the French: the young Nationalists, it seemed, were fighting with efficiency and fervor. During the night the Nationalists attacked and knocked out half a dozen Binh Xuyen strongpoints, one after...
...deep stillness lay across the wasteland of Dienbienphu. A shroud of gunsmoke lifted from the dips and hollows where the French Union garrison had died. In the stillness, there was only a muffled tramp! tramp! tramp! as the worn-out prisoners moved north, or a sudden, shuddering thump as an ammunition dump went off, or a dull buzz in the sky where the French C475 were keeping their death watch. It was a graveyard world down there, the French pilots reported, a tornup world of broken stones and cluttered bunkers, while around it the jungle would soon regain its ancient...
...cool, breezeless morning in the greenhill isles of Ithaca, Zante and Cephalonia, off the western shores of Greece. Villagers and vacationers from the mainland slept or stirred, or busied themselves quietly about their homes. It was 5:30 a.m. Forty seconds later, the isles lay beneath a yellow shroud of brickdust in the wake of a major earthquake...
...address system, men in gas masks and protective clothing started the ticklish operation of jockeying the dangerous tank out of the reactor's concrete shield. The crane that lifted it had a shielded cab to protect its operator. In 30 minutes the tank was lowered into its canvas shroud, to be towed to a deserted spot and covered with sand. Not until last week, with the tank safely in its grave, did the scientists reveal that its radioactivity was half as strong as that of all the radium which the world has produced...