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...danger of a French defeat is serious. The French have not yet completed their retreat into the Red River delta. Under the guise of "regrouping operations," they will soon abandon Moncay. Already, Moncay's French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some...
...reappraisal of the therapeutic use of penicillin and a thorough rationalization of every dose-and amount-should be undertaken," said Captain Oilman. "We must abandon the thought current in some quarters that this antibiotic is a cure-all or that its prophylactic use is justified. Not only is the routine use before all operations, dental as well as surgical, unsound, but the facility with which it is administered for almost every complaint . . . needs to be halted...
Last week the Communist high command, facing defeat in Korea, struck a major counterblow in Indo-China. Within a few days, the Communists forced the French to abandon a whole line of forts and thereby wrecked the French plan of containing and eventually starving out the rebels. At week's end the Moscow newspapers were giving as much space to Indo-China as to Korea...
...Cliserio Reyes was a standing joke. While other boys of his age in the small farming community interested themselves in girls or beisbol, 18-year-old Cliserio spent all his spare time and meager pocket money building model airplanes. To repeated gibes, and pleas from his friends to abandon such foolishness, he replied flatly: "Some day I'm going...
Will Cuppy won fame by using footnotes with abandon and often irrelevance. While the innumerable asides are good for a laugh or two, in the end they serve merely to slow up the reader and to bolster up dull and laborious passages with two line jokes...