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Just 15 miles out of Hanoi, on the crucial supply road to Haiphong, our car is suddenly halted. Trouble ahead in the next village: the Viet Minh have ambushed some trucks and four Frenchmen have been killed. The tanks must clear the road; there will be half an hour'...
When they reached the bottom, the officers looked around with the beams of their 1,000-watt searchlights. "We came down on a bed of slimy sand," said Engineer Willm. "We started the motors and cruised a bit, but the water quickly became troubled. At one point we sighted a...
In the long wait. Sherpas sit brown and still as little Buddhas in the snow; the white men crack sharp glances at the heights; the bold English head of Colonel Hunt, snow-grizzled and weary, turns upward. Eleven hours later, the two are back. They have made the south summit...
¶ The Arizona Cattle Growers Association, in collecting evidence of vandalism by deer and elk hunters, heard from one rancher who found a cake of soap floating in his galvanized iron cattle-watering trough this fall, and then discovered a pit containing wood ashes beneath it. A luxury-loving hunter...
As Samuel Lubell said in The Future of American Politics, "The same 'better element' in the community who kept the racial lid on during the first primary let it blow in the runoff." The fact that the GOP "better element" has never been too effective in keeping the lid on...