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...mortar explosions come faster. Should Moncay garrison send out a relief column? Impossible! With one company away on an island-clearing operation, there's only one company of Legionnaires left to hold Moncay citadel, as the Viet Minh doubtless know. Towards morning the explosions stop. The air is warm and heavy and very still. The meteorological report forecasts a typhoon...
...Wilmington, across the frontier of Delaware, in a state that at first glance would appear to be Maryland. This state (whose name escapes me) borders on Delaware for some 100 miles ... In character, speech, and appetites, its inhabitants are a shade more southern than Delaware's, which doubtless accounts for the differences your reviewer noted between my Barons and Delaware's Du Ponts...
...Normally the mechanism is self-regulating (like a heating plant with a thermostat). But sometimes, Selye says, it gets out of kilter. Then the body either overdoes the job of adapting itself to stress, underdoes it, or simply does it wrong. What follows may be disease or even death. Doubtless this has always been true, but it seems to be happening oftener now that man has built himself a civilization which subjects his old-fashioned system to stresses & strains for which it was never designed...
...Doubtless there is some danger involved in the decision to send American and South Korean forces across the 38th parallel at this time. It will certainly reinforce the Communist propaganda line in Asia where the propaganda charges American or white imperialism. It may provoke the Peking government of China, or perhaps the Kremlin, into some new aggressive action, even into an all-out war. But in the present situation the risks involved in immediately occupying all of Korea appear to be sound...
...structure of society in France or anywhere else." The few gourmands who still fancy that pulpy, parsnippy root, which is no kin to the conelike epicurean artichoke (Cynara scolymus), claim that the Jerusalem artichoke tastes best after it has been frozen m the ground. Most of society will doubtless remain content to leave it there, and take a chance with the subversive spud...