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...will eat them for breakfast." The colons and the troops see the fellagha signaling at night, with flashlights from the tops of hills. "The flick of a burnoose, the beating of a donkey may mean something-who knows?" Desparnets says. "All a fellagh has to do is drop his gun, and zut, he becomes a plain Arab named Mohammed. It's not hard for them." The fellagha never attack unless certain of victory. In combat with anything like equal numbers, they leave four men behind as a suicide force to protect their fleeing leader...
...years' time, the gadget-laden U.S. householder will be able to do almost everything but change the baby with the flick of a switch. So predicted General Electric's Vice President W. V. O'Brien last week. Electronic devices will thaw frozen foods, cook them in a matter of minutes or seconds; electric incinerators will burn up the waste. Heat pumps (for both heating and cooling homes) will mushroom from the few thousand now in use to 500,000. There will be television screens that hang like pictures on the wall, connected to the set only...
...Business School Field was a quagmire, the afternoon's steady downpour had become a torrent and Dartmouth led 7 to 6 when center midfielder Tim Anderson drove a flick shot on an an assist from Ed Curtis past the Indian goalie to tie matters at 1:31. On the face-off following the goal Anderson took the ball, drove his way around three defenders, and tossed to Monk Aiello who made...
...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...
...Challenge. That did it. With a flick of his dress gloves, France's first soldier was challenging the authority and assaulting the integrity of France's civilian leaders. The Cabinet could not treat the challenge lightly. Marshal Juin is France's military hero, an idol of its officer corps...