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...Weather Bureau predicts mid-70 degree readings this afternoon, with possible slight showers near evening. Little cloudiness is expected. Morning forecast is for cloudless skies...
...cloudless day last week, General René Cogny, commander of North Viet Nam, flew to the troubled southern zone of the Red River Delta. At Namdinh, 45 miles southeast of Hanoi, with evident pleasure, he presented a unit citation to the elite 2nd Amphibious Group, 1st Foreign Legion Cavalry Regiment; he tied the traditional fanon, an Arabian horse's tail, to the regimental colors. Then the strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) three-star general called the legion officers around him. "Dienbienphu was a blow," he said, "but that's all over now. We must turn the page...
...Flick of Death. The night was cloudless but hazy. The four main French strong points were blacked out except for shielded lights in a special pattern to guide Banjo One, Two & Co. into the drop zone. From Luciole, the zone looked pitifully small-500 meters at the southern end of the main airstrip-and the slightest miscalculation of wind or navigation could make a parachute, whatever its cargo, drift into the barbed wire or the Viet Minh lines. At intervals of a few seconds, sometimes minutes, there were more lights-delicate white fragments in the blackness. Some were Viet shells...
...Cloudless Skies. Kelland's stories fall into two general classes: 1) action-filled mystery dramas with big-city atmosphere, 2) more leisurely period pieces, as often as not in Western settings. But the Kelland hero, whether he wears chaps, galluses, or a Brooks Brothers suit, is always a man of gumption and industry. His heroine, similarly, is spunky and assertive, but she always turns out to be loving and feminine once the hero has tamed...
...story, like true Kelland young folk, Anneke (who has lost her interest in money) and Juan (who has forgiven her for it) decide to start life anew together-"a boy and girl, simple, delighting each other, happy under cloudless skies." To keep the clouds away indefinitely they have-from Anneke's mining operations-a handsome financial profit. And so, after magazine rights, bookstore orders and reprint contracts, does durable Clarence Budington Kelland...