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...another copy later) was somewhere in the jungle-clad mountains northwest of Hanoi directing the operations of a Communist guerrilla army which had just delivered a smashing attack on the French rear and was now withdrawing before French counterattacks. His name: General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Yap). Since the husky voice of Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh disappeared from the Viet Minh propaganda radio two years ago, the French have come more & more to believe that Giap is their chief antagonist in Indo-China...
...these reasons, the McGuire Bill is a poor piece of legislation in its own right. It's difficult to have much sympathy with business groups who support this type of coercive price-fixing, and then yap about "Socialism" when some other pressure group demands similar government underwriting of its own interests. The retailers my get their protection, but if government controls and restrictions come in its wake, it will be their own responsibility...
Taking Trips. Nowhere else along the 200 miles of the semicircular U.N. front was North Korean resistance as stubborn as at Kumchon. On the 1st Cavalry's right flank, the 1st R.O.K. Division under able Major General Paik Sun Yap (TIME, July 24) raced ahead, aided by U.S. tanks and rockets from F-80s. Said trim, 30-year-old General Paik, "Now at least we have some tanks, too, and it is wonderful. My tactic is 'no stop.' " He added proudly, "Now we can be like General Patton...
Spring trips seem to be going out of fashion with the debt-ridden HAA, but the lacrosse team's expedition classifies as a sort of private excursion. Maryland, Penn, and Navy have signed guarantees to yap most of the squad's expenses...
...University's work laid special emphasis on the causes for a sharp decline in the population of Yap. Four major typhoons occurred while the study was going on, but this did not prevent the research crew from compiling a thorough analysis of the native culture with its age-grading custom and strict caste system...