Word: tricolor
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...garrison at Dienbienphu clung at week's end to six fire-whipped strong points by the Nam Yourn River. The tricolor still flapped jauntily above the French command post. But the 12,000 worn-out Frenchmen. Vietnamese. North Africans and Foreign Legionnaires had been squeezed into one-third of their original perimeter, and they were short of ammunition, supplies and fresh reinforcements. The men were so tired that their performance was losing effect. One night last week the Communists quickly isolated and overran a Foreign Legion outpost in the airstrip sector, and the French could not get it back...
...assaulting the rubble-dust fortress of Dienbienphu. The army of Red General Giap, torn by frightful casualties, was still coming in from the jungle and the hills, and a third great assault was abuilding. But so far, Dienbienphu had gallantly defended the hopes of the free world, and the tricolor still rippled free in the gunsmoke. The battle last week...
...surrender a hundred times it will be to betray them a hundred times." Later he led 50,000 black troops in a two-year battle to victory. His hatred of whites, already strong, grew violent. To make his flag, he tore out the white from a French tricolor. When he came to declare in dependence on Jan. 1, 1804, the illiterate Dessalines turned the task over to a patriot who declaimed that "to write the Act of Independence, we need the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull for an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet...
...guerrillas by radio. When the enemy moved up his 316th Division from the southeast, in position to attack either Dienbienphu or Laichau, the French decided to let Laichau go. They evacuated the garrison (using part of it to strengthen Dienbienphu), blew up their installations in Laichau, and left the tricolor flying for the incoming Reds to cut down...
...which says it spent $5,000,000 on color TV last year (and $20 million since 1940), has no intention of letting the steam fizzle out. It has sent its tricolor tube, along with manufacturing instructions, to 177 of the nation's television set and part makers. It is already producing tubes for experimental sets earmarked for selected viewers, expects to be turning them out at the rate of 2,000 a month by midsummer. RCA will soon ask FCC to approve its system. If it does, RCA thinks it can have color receivers on the market nine...