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...White House indicated that Mrs. Luce will take over her new job in late spring-after the Italian elections. This will permit the present U.S. Ambassador, Ellsworth Bunker, to carry through the close watch which he has already begun on the critical Italian election campaign, the date of which has not yet been...
...turbine locomotive, which some workers call "Messy Bessie," packs more power (4,500 h.p.) into less length than the diesel, and burns cheap bunker oil for fuel. General Electric hopes that some day the engine will run on coal. As the biggest producer of coal west of the Mississippi. U.P. could get the full benefits of such a locomotive...
...meeting in Verden, Germany, addressed by ex-Paratrooper General "Papa" Ramcke, reminded me of the circumstances of his capture by our 13th Regiment of the 8th Division . . . on Sept. 19, 1944. Word was received that General Ramcke desired to surrender. He and his staff were in a bunker 75 feet underground, on the Crozon Peninsula outside Brest . . . At 1830 hours, Brigadier General Charles D. W. Canham . . . appeared to accept surrender. Very haughtily, Ramcke demanded of Canham his credentials. Canham pointed to the accompanying Tommy-gun and BAR men and replied: "These are my credentials...
...readily, some critics think. With more men than Giap, with an abundance of U.S. equipment, with an overwhelming superiority in guns and planes, the French, instead of ranging all over the map as Giap is doing, seem to be handicapped by the bunker-or Maginot-mentality. In the high command there is a conflict of personalities: two four-star generals, Linares and Salan, competing for military advantage. What France badly needs is another De Lattre, one who knows'how to use the material at hand...
Fighting flared up last week at other points along the central and western fronts-at Bunker Hill, of bloody memory (TIME, Aug. 25), at places called Finger Ridge and Iron Horse. Correspondents who saw last week's battles reported severe U.N. casualties-especially in U.S. dead and wounded on Triangle Hill...