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...Hanoi, Gottfried teamed up with Eric Gibbs, London Bureau chief then on temporary assignment in Indo-China, to tour the front north of Hanoi in a battered old command car. They wanted to see the thin French defenses that hold back the Reds from all of Indo-China and Siam. Every couple of miles they passed small forts which, except for being brick, looked like something out of American frontier days. Troops had made up for the shortage of barbed wire by slanting up rows of sharpened bamboo sticks-which are quite effective until someone puts a match to them...
...home team strongmen swept the weight events, with Jerry Kanter with a put of 47 feet, 4 1/2 inches, Al Wilson, and Captain Charlie Keith finishing one, two, three with the shot, and Dick Rubin, Eric Stomsted, and Wilson scoring with the 35-pound weight. Rubin's distance was 47 feet, 8 3/4 inches...
Four University faculty members have been promoted to the rank of full professors, the Provost's office announced last night. They are: Alexander Gerschenkron, professor of Economics, Eric E. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin, Frederick Mosteller, professor of Mathematical Statistics, and Robert B. Woodward, professor of Chemistry...
TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs visited a little-known part of Indo-China which is ruled neither by France nor Bao Dai nor Communist Ho Chi Minh. Gibbs's report...
...Eric Williams, whose book The Wooden Horse (TIME, Jan. 23) recounted the daring breaks by allied airmen from a German prison camp, found some fascinated listeners to his lecture on the science of escape. The audience: 400 inmates of Maidstone prison, near London...