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Over 250 spectators withstood the subfreezing temperatures to watch the firemen in action...
Serving as a Communist punching-bag in the Far East, Indo-China has long been a target for a vitiating guerilla war. For seven years the French army in Indo-China has withstood the Communist while vainly trying to muster enough native support to drive them out. Only a promise of complete independence for Indo-China can rally nationalist support, for the persistent French colonialism which precipitated the war still discourages the Indo-Chinese from resisting the Communists' guerilla attacks...
...that the lie "grew." DuPre spoke all over Canada, contributed the proceeds of his fame to the Boy Scouts and ordered his share of the royalties from the book (now in its third printing) turned over to them. DuPre, who had repeatedly said in the book that he had withstood torture only because of his great "faith in God," explained that the only reason for talking about his adventure at all was "to prove, especially to the young, that a man with faith can endure anything." His wife, who knew about the hoax from the beginning, had another explanation...
There is a very broad range of degree of Communist pressure on prisoners. In some of the cases described in Dr. Charles Mayo's report to the U.N. (TIME, Nov. 2) men withstood frightful beatings and torture, as well as concentrated attempts at brainwashing, without confessing. On the other hand, Colonel Schwable was not beaten or tortured in the ordinary sense. He said he was subjected to mental cruelty and kept in a dirty hovel, without shaves or haircuts, to "the point where I was as filthy as a tramp...
...spring of 1896, Frank Lloyd Wright built a wooden windmill tower at Spring Green, Wis. It was slender and 60 ft. high, built of two-by-fours and wood sheathing anchored to a heavy stone foundation. The lightweight wood construction was designed in perfect tension balance, and it has withstood the storms for over half a century, far beyond the life of steel windmills built at the same time...