Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viet Minh no longer have any chance of taking the deltaunless the Communist Chinese step in to help them. While the Chinese are known to be in close touch with Ho, the six months' rainy season that starts in May will make the roads in northern Viet Nam and southern China all but impassable to large-scale Chinese troop movements. Meanwhile, the Viet Minh were attacking on a 75-mile front north of Hanoi, deploying 30 to 40 battalions for daylight battle in open country for the first time. At week's end the French were...
Palace Gates is a spur-line railway station in the drab reaches of London's northern suburbs. Into Palace Gates one morning last week panted the little two-coach train which invariably leaves at 10:15 for Seven Sisters, where commuters invariably set down at 10:21 on the dot, transfer to the main line to London's financial district. With a few minutes to spare, Driver Percy Playle and his fireman left the cab for a quick...
...spotters will specialize on attackers trying to slip, perhaps at treetop level, through gaps between the radar stations. Such attacks, says the Air Force's Air Defense Command, are a very real danger. Once a group of bombers passes the radars that watch the coasts and northern border of the U.S., it might "get loose" in the interior. Unless it should blunder into the field of a radar, the defending jet fighters would not know where to look...
...split" allegedly went back to post-VJ days when the Russians occupied northern Korea. The first puppet Pyongyang regime had been a coalition of two kinds of Korean comrades. One faction, led by scholarly Kim Tu Bong, had been trained in the Chinese Communists' stronghold in Yenan. The other, under truculent Kim Il Sung, had a Moscow background...
...this pessimistic judgment is correct, Mt. Everest may remain unconquered for a long time. Tibet, which owns the easier northern slope, is in the process of becoming a part of Communist China. It is not likely to welcome U.S. or British alpinists, and Asians have never shown much interest in climbing difficult mountains...