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Strohmeier, Bethlehem Steelman and member of the New Bedford, Mass. Yacht Club, "by following two simple rules: when in doubt go to westward, otherwise sail on the tack that will take you straight to Bermuda." Malay began by standing off on the port tack until she was nearly 45 miles west of the rhumb line, a straight-line course to St. David's Head. For a day she drifted in the Gulf Stream, while the crew fished and swam. Out of the stream, Malay worked westward again before she came about on the starboard tack for the last long...
...recently assumed command in Indo-China, TIME Correspondent John Mecklin flew down from Hanoi to Saigon to cover his arrival. As the newsfronts keep shifting in this hot war, Mecklin moves with them. His beat has taken him into the Red River Delta, eastward to the South China Sea, westward into the remote villages of Laos. He has traveled by cyclo (a kind of bicycle wheelchair), by jeep, C-47-and on foot...
Since coming to power in 1949, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has kept his people's eyes turned firmly westward. He sold them on the theory that Germany's future depends on the building of a strong Western Europe. "Europe is coming," Der Alte promised week after week. Last week, as it became increasingly plain that Europe is not coming, Adenauer faced outspoken rumbles among his own supporters...
Their obvious tactic was to stall until the Viet Minh could mount an offensive against the Red River Delta or drive westward into Laos. Whenever the West showed signs of impatience, they could throw another crumb on the table. If the West finally got disgusted and moved toward intervention, the Communists could always accept the half-loaf that France was all too willing to give them...
Eighteenth-Century France lost one empire-in India and North America-to British sea power. Her modern empire, still the world's largest, comprises Indo-China and a series of colonies strewn across the westward bulge of Africa in an area the size of the continental U.S. Total population: 79 million, one-third of which is in Indo-China...