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...mouth of the Mekong River, four hours from Saigon, French soldiers boarded the ship, cleared the decks and set up machine guns. They explained that the Communists commanded both sides of the river. The crew saw a French ship, disabled by a Communist mine, being towed upstream...
When the U.S. 25th Division crossed the Han last week, the Turkish brigade attached to the division was ordered to make a diversionary feint two miles upstream. A company of infantry reinforced by engineers went to the designated spot, made a loud splashing in the water. Then they retired, noisily chopped some wood, returned to the river and pushed out from shore several log rafts and a boat loaded with dummies in old Turkish uniforms. An artillery and mortar barrage provided "cover" for the phantom force...
...there are certain things that neither time nor the Eliot Bridge will be able to change. On those brisk Saturday afternoons throughout the fall, the crowds will continue to stumble and sing their way across the old Anderson Bridge. Rowing upstream from M.I.T., the Anderson Bridge will be the last one before turning in, and it will always be the most direct route from Eliot House to the Business School...
...drove jeeps along the sandy river flats to ferrying points on the Han River several miles upstream from the shattered bridge. There beetle-like rowboats jammed to the gunwales with refugees were plying back & forth across the broad, shallow stream...
...eights will row at 3:30 p.m. over a three-quarter mile course from Magazine Beach upstream to Dunster House. The fours will row a three-quarter mile course downstream at 3:30 p.m. and 15 minutes later will row a one-half mile race. These races will start at the Weeks Bridge. The singles will row a three-quarter mile race at 4:30 p.m. and a one-half mile course...