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...claimed that only one invader was unaccounted for. The main reason for the Indonesians' lack of success has been Britain's firm determination-continued by the Labor government-to honor her treaty obligations for the defense of Malaysia. In the past six months Britain has doubled her troop strength in Malaysia, to some 20,000, and British tommies are doing most of the actual fighting in the bitter little...
...devastating battles of attrition launched at Verdun and the Marne. Vignettes at the Czarist court are fascinating, and one oddly heartwarming sequence (marred by a fake shot of a meter clocking up a fare) shows the famed 600 vintage Paris taxis rattling off to the front as troop transports...
Subsequent events were almost a ritual. There was the usual nighttime powwow by the angered officers. Before dawn the next day, Sunday-it seems to be always on Sunday-there were ominous troop movements in Saigon. Reportedly the operation was directed by Brigadier General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the mustached, intense commander of the I Corps in the northern region, and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who affects harlequin glasses and a pearl-handled revolver. Squads of police sped through Saigon's darkened streets, arresting seven council members and a dozen-odd politicians and student leaders...
...Howard Henjyoji of Harvard quickly pinned the Diplomats' Wood. Then F and M won five in a row as Saul Shimansky beat Tom Gilmore 6-2 at 130, Troop downed Tim McCarthy 6-2 at 137, Peter Martin beat Phil Emmi 4-0 at 147, and Taylor defeated Ed Franquemont...
...conduct their business in a dark-paneled aura of ceremony; there are grandfather clocks, brass cuspidors and stand-up desks about, and the desk lamps of Hambros' partners were converted from kerosene. The City also has some of the most strictly observed traditions in the kingdom, including a troop of soldiers who arrive each night from Wellington Barracks to guard the Bank of England...