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...your story on the 45th Infantry Division (TIME, May 3). During my military service, I guess I griped as much as any other GI. But the 14 months in Korea that I wore the Thunderbird patch on my left sleeve were proud ones . . . Thanks for your tribute to a topnotch outfit...
...week's end, Dulles tried to patch together a few scraps from the debris-though the Indo-China conference had not yet even formally begun. He called a Sunday meeting with Australia and New Zealand, discussed when and if a united front in Southeast Asia could be put together. He also sounded out Thailand and the Philippines. Monday morning he boarded his plane for Milan and a brief talk with Italy's Premier Scelba before flying on homeward...
...after a British battalion had killed 25 Mau Mau in a running fire fight, one wounded terrorist, lying on a stretcher, opened his eyes and said: "I am General Kago" (a major terrorist leader who last month planted the severed head of a British district officer in a maize patch). The African trooper guarding Kago simply said "Are you?", raised his rifle and shot General Kago dead...
...storm he has kicked up, Wurmeling still has the all-out backing of Chancellor Adenauer. He is pressing for stiffer divorce laws, better family housing ("Marriage flowers better in one's own home"), church-run marriage classes, "guidance offices" to patch up broken marriages. "They asked me whether I wanted a grown-up ministry," said Wurmeling last week. "I said no ... I like my shop small...
...gentlemen-farmers, foreseeing "mountains of fruit, torrents of flowers, avalanches of vegetables." Pan and brush in hand, Pécuchet tramps the roads for fertilizer. When others contemptuously hold their noses, Bouvard cries, "But it's gold! It's gold!" Too much "gold" burns out the strawberry patch...