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...directly before several framed pictures of President Dwight Eisenhower. But young MacArthur was aware of his unguarded rear. "Oh no," he announced firmly. "My father doesn't want me to pose for pictures like that. He. told me: no political pictures." Then he faded away from the vulnerable sector...
...that an individual battle won is but a short step in a long, hard fight, and that every seeming victory may prove a wasted effort. Nevertheless, research scientists at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute last week proudly announced a victory that may mean great gains in a major sector: the search for a chemical cure for cancer...
...metaphor to tell some of his old colleagues what he thought about the state of the U.S. economy. Said Burns at a dinner in Columbia's Men's Faculty Club: "Early this year a scissors movement began to develop in the economy, with the financial and investment sector occupying the upper blade and the industrial sector the lower blade." The scissors, predicted Burns, are unlikely to remain open for long, but "will close through a movement of the industrial blade...
...Eastern Front in the spring of 1944. For Graeber and his comrades, hell is not only the Russians but the stacks of German corpses emerging like an obscene layer cake from the melting snows, January casualties on top, October casualties on the bottom. When the Russians begin hitting his sector of the front with heavy artillery fire, Graeber is only too happy to snatch his first furlough in two years...
...Bitter River. Inside Dienbienphu there was little food, little wine. At one point there was just enough ammunition for three days' fighting. The drop zone was so small that much of the French supplies and many paratroop reinforcements drifted into the enemy lines. In one sector the Communists were only about 700 yards from the French center, and the front lines were often less than 40 yards apart. The Red field gunners and mortarmen had perhaps the most concentrated target in all Indo-China: the French perimeter was only 2,000 yards wide. The French artillery was ineffective...