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...farther. Thant assured them that they had halted at the Lufira River. That was correct, up to a point. With three bridges down, the Indians stopped at the Lufira all right, but only long enough to rig ropes and pulleys to a swimming float and ferry 120-mm. mortars, recoilless rifles and Jeeps across the stream. Noronha had no orders to take Jadotville-but then again, he had no orders not to-so he kept on going. Unopposed, the Indians trooped into Jadotville with Noronha himself heading a column of Jeeps...
...near for the rebels, for British troops began pouring into Brunei by air. Hawker Hunter jets of the R.A.F. buzzed low over rebel emplacements firing blank 20-mm. cannon shells; many rebel troops fled in terror because they had never before heard the shriek of a jet engine. Other rebels fought on, inflicted substantial casualties on Britain's tough little Gurkha troops. The Gurkhas retaliated by lopping off a few rebel heads. Finally British numbers began to tell and the rebels faded away into the jungle...
...conviction that the U.S. is misspending its money on foreign aid. Since 1946, he has made six globe-girdling tours, two side trips to Latin America, three to Europe, and four to the Near Middle and Far East and the Balkan countries. In his travels, Ellender shoots 16-mm. movies, shows them to his colleagues in Washington. He keeps little black notebooks in which he scribbles gossipy comments about everything he sees. These are published at Government expense, in books running as long as 1,000 pages, and shipped out to anybody who wants to know about Ellender...
...Rhode Island and Vermont, and the 51st of Florida and South Carolina. Those outfits (authorized division strength: 13,500) would be regrouped into 3,300-man brigades. Further, 1,800 smaller Guard and reserve units would be disbanded because they are dead weight-among them, crews of vintage 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, now useless against jets. But 1,000 new units would be created, such as guerrilla-warfare squads. The end result, McNamara hopes, will be a lean, modernized reserve capable of taking up front-line positions in as little as four weeks...
...firing. Hopefully, their observations will help them to prescribe the proper design and materials to maintain the difficult hairline balance between strength and weight. By last week 40 shells had been fired, and new alloys and casing designs have already been contrived for the Army's 155-mm. shells...