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...terms without question. That night the French army radio put out this note of appreciation: "The delegates of the French high command thank the delegates of the Viet people's army for their humanitarian concern." And the Communists seemed just as friendly next day when they helped load the first eleven wounded into a couple of French helicopters: "We hope you will remember what we have done for you. We hope this war will end very soon. Now au revoir." But the eleven wounded men of Dienbienphu"were rath er hostile" to the Communist speechmakers, said...
...recently as last March, it cost $6 to truck a one-ton load 58 miles into Hanoi from Haiphong; last week it cost $25. One Hanoi dry-goods importer last year did $90,000 worth of business; last week he reduced his 1954 estimate to $25,000. The surest barometer of Hanoi's fear: real-estate values are down some 30% since March...
Women cannot be in the boys' dormitories at any time under any circumstances. This throws the load of indoor socializing onto the fraternities, but here Middlebury College law has strengthened Vermont State law to a severity that outdoes the deplorable situation in Massachusetts...
Yard proctors will carry a greater share of the freshman advising load, F. Skiddy von Stade '38, Dean of Freshmen, announced yesterday...
...Viet Minh's ack-ack spat up at him, Earthquake made the wide circling letdown to 1,500 ft., lumbered across the deep valley until the "kickers" shoved the load out through the big rear door over the ever-shrinking drop zone. Four times Earthquake's plane was hit. Once a slug cut his elevator controls, and he had to fly home on the trim tabs. Reported Earthquake cheerfully: "We could make it go up or down, but never stay level. We went home like a kangaroo...