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...over two of Huguette's five or six outposts. One 50-man suicide squad infiltrates the French center, gets within 200 yards of De Castries' command post before it is wiped out. De Castries calls out staff officers, cooks, orderlies, switchboard operators for the infantry fight. Reports sift out that De Castries has issued the order: "I expect all the troops to die at the positions assigned to them rather than retreat an inch." HQ denies it, but Dienbienphu surely teeters at death's edge. Then De Castries counterattacks...
...Recipe: 1 cup finely chopped nuts; 2 ounces sweet or semisweet chocolate; 2½ cups sifted flour; 4½ teaspoons double-acting baking powder; 1teaspoon each of salt and vanilla; 1½ cups sugar; ZA⅔ cup shortening; 1¼cups milk; ⅔ cup unbeaten egg whites. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Add shortening, milk and vanilla; beat 1½ minutes, 150 strokes per minute, until well-blended. Add egg whites; beat 1½ minutes. Spoon 1¼ of batter over nuts spaced evenly over two well-greased, lightly floured 9-in. round layer pans. Sprinkle with...
London's fogs, which once romantically shrouded the nocturnal prowlings of Sherlock Holmes's Professor Moriarty,† Stevenson's Suicide Club and Mrs. Lowndes's Lodger, now veil an even grimmer killer: the estimated three tons of soot and ash that sift daily out of the sky over each square mile of Britain's larger cities. In one smog-bound week last December, 4,000 Londoners died from trying to breathe the noxious combination of smoke and fog that choked their city...
...underlying philosophy of conservatism, he said simply: "I'm not a philosopher. These are questions I haven't thought much about." He was not at home in complicated theorizing. He operated from a fixed base of accepted principles and law, used his analytical mind to sift out the facts. The Taft-Hartley Act made no effort to establish new principles of labor relations. Rather, it was a great improvisation, intended to register a shift of public sentiment against the one-sidedness of the Wagner Act. It was not the last word on the subject, and Taft admitted...
Last fall the International Press Institute published a report on getting the news out of Russia (TIME, Oct. 13). One method recommended was the use of a "Russian desk" to read, analyze and sift news reports from Moscow, and to add to them an extra dimension of understanding. Quoting a British expert on the Soviet Union, the I.P.I, report said: "The sort of news one gets out of Moscow . . . by itself gives no picture at all . . . To one [who is] accustomed to reading between the lines and who already has a good firsthand picture of Russia, the official news...