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...forces had pulled out for a three-week rest north of the Hanoi delta, while others 1) captured Dien Bien airport and garrison, 65 miles west of Nasan; 2) ambushed a detachment of Moroccans retreating from Laichau and then encircled the old Thai capital; 3) forced the French to abandon Phong Tho, 35 miles north of Laichau; 4) moved south to the borders of Laos. Giap's most serious effort was a two-division attack (20,000 men) on the flooded area around Phat Diem, only 62 miles south of Hanoi. The French replied by moving in .three mobile...
...Where was the captain? No one knew. No alarm was given, no ship's officer appeared on the bridge to give the order to abandon ship or to stand fast. The purser told the passengers that the Champollion was aground off Israel, and that the city ahead was Haifa. "Everything is fine," he added cheerily...
...soaring serpent of sound. "If you're interested in music," Benny remarks soberly, "you can't slop around. I expected things, and they had to be done. Yeah, they'd grumble, but I think the band really liked it." With the discipline Benny exacted came an abandon greater than that of most barrelhouse bands. The pounding, high-polished drive of the ensemble made an urgent background for the wild flights of star performers, and every solo was free speech in music...
...Abandon most direct controls (notable exception: retain rent controls in really "critical" areas). ¶Establish a stand-by controls system. ¶Use indirect anti-inflation measures, such as increasing the percentage of gold (now 25%) behind Federal Reserve notes...
...armed rebellion. Cried South Carolina's Governor Jimmy Byrnes: "South Carolina will not, now nor for some years to come, mix white and colored children in our schools. If the court changes what is now the law of the land [so that we cannot] maintain segregation . . . we will abandon the public school system. To do that would be choosing the lesser of two great evils...