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Beyond Koto there was a bad stretch of road winding through steep gorges. Moving at 3 m.p.h., the column halted several times while engineers filled shell craters in the road. At one point there was a four-hour stop while the engineers built abutments on both sides of a chasm so that a bridge span would reach across. The airplanes silenced much of the enemy fire, except on one agonizing day when the air cover was grounded by a driving snowstorm...
Indo-China adjoins Red China, but the border has never been pegged out. The real frontier is a string of French forts and outposts connected by a road called Route Coloniale No. 4 which winds between steep hills and dense forests. The French Foreign Legionnaires who man the forts say: "The Route Coloniale No. 4 is a road a man travels only once alive." In a bitter five-day battle fought with the Communists last week on Route No. 4, over 3,000 Foreign Legionnaires were trapped...
...Among them: Occidental Life Insurance Co., Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., Avco Manufacturing Corp., Philadelphia Co., Standard Gas & Electric, Duquesne Light Co., ACF-Brill Motors, Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd., Republic Steel Corp., Washington's Carlton and Wardman Park hotels...
...height also makes the station harder for staffers to reach. In winter snowshoes and skis are usually necessary for the steep, uphill trail. State and Metropolitan District policemen, who have their radio stations next door also have this problem. During the winter of 1947-8 no one could drive up for three weeks...
...Walking Colonial Institute." The. road to greatness has been a steep one for the greying, 46-year-old man whose grandmother was born in slavery. Orphaned at 14, he worked during his high-school years first as a houseboy, then as a "pig boy," moving type metal in the composing rooms of the Los Angeles Times. When his grandmother, with whom he lived, became worried by ominous tales of "printer's consumption," Bunche left the Times for a job laying carpets...