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...agents have sought to tame and civilize the warlike Chavantes under their uniquely Brazilian motto of "pacification through love." Though the agents never used arms, even in self-defense, the ferocious Chavantes rebuffed them. One agent who dared to cross the River of Deaths was left dead under a pile of 1,000 war clubs...
...procession of dead and wounded seemed endless; men with stretchers pushed through the crowd to pile bodies in a nearby driveway, to carry the wounded to ambulances or into a nearby kitchen where surgeons operated on a table covered with bloody bedsheets. For 4½ hours the two telescoped smokers stayed stubbornly locked together while the living moaned inside and a dead man stared fixedly from one window; then two huge cranes lifted the upper car, revealing bodies and debris wedged and jammed almost immovably, and the litters were loaded anew...
...front. On a bitterly cold but sunny morning, three hours after his divisions jumped off, MacArthur's Constellation, the SCAP, landed on Sinanju's bumpy airfield. Welcomed by a cluster of his top brass, the general climbed into a jeep and pulled the hood of his pile-lined parka over his head. In the back seat rode the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Walton Walker...
...Better Birth? Another Kalimpong Buddhist keeps busy driving an obstinate goat around a pile of prayer stones, hoping to assure the ungrateful animal a better birth-perhaps even human-in its next incarnation. The daily grind for U.S. Scholar Joseph Rock, who was chased out of China by the Reds and settled in Kalimpong, consists of work on a new system of spelling Tibet's tongue-twisting place names. Austrian Baron Rene Nebesky, who helps Rock, is boning up on Tibetan demonology...
With Blodnick, Dennis, and Ed Condon sweeping the backboards, and the Yardlings' sliding man-to-man defense throttling the Tech attack, the freshmen were able to pile up an early lead, which they increased steadily until the last quarter. The halftime score...