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...Legionnaires had been squeezed into one-third of their original perimeter, and they were short of ammunition, supplies and fresh reinforcements. The men were so tired that their performance was losing effect. One night last week the Communists quickly isolated and overran a Foreign Legion outpost in the airstrip sector, and the French could not get it back. This was the third outpost the Communists had captured in seven days, and GHQ was despondent. Unless some way could be found to draw off Red General Giap's 40,000 men, said one top French commander, "General de Castries...
...Plotter. From a dingy room in the British sector reeking with the smell of cooking, 60-year-old Dr. Trushnovich ran the NTS in Germany, an organization of White Russians and their sympathizers. Like NTS, Dr. Trushnovich was neofascist. But his NTS members hate Russia's Red rulers with cold ferocity, devote every waking hour to plotting the overthrow of the Soviet regime. Born near Trieste, Trushnovich fought with the White Russians against the Red army, helped the Nazis against Russia in World War II, and after the war founded a relief camp for Russian escapees. Trushnovich...
...started to work with TIME almost nine years ago, has since logged some 300,000 miles and has worked his way through seven staff cars without an accident. He is a particularly prudent driver, says Bureau Chief Frank White, while traveling in Berlin's Red-occupied East sector, where Germans who are caught violating traffic laws have a way of disappearing. For the heavy-traveling Bonn bureau there are three drivers: Wilhelm Hauner, former chauffeur of a Tiger tank in a German Panzer divi sion ; Heinz Koperski, who served in an 88mm. artillery battery; and Bruno Teschke, who serviced...
While sharing Harris' general optimism on the state of the economy, John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, pointed to the continuous two-year decline in farm prices as a dangerous soft spot. "For some time to come, there is a reasonably strong prospect of a squeeze in the agricultural sector of the economy." he said...
Heavy Babies. Knoke ached for combat, and in the bloody days of 1943 it hit him with a bang. His radio told of "heavy babies in [sector] Anton-Quelle-eight," and Knoke saw some 300 Liberators, "like a great bunch of grapes, shimmering in the sky." He attacked head on and got the surprise of his life. "I almost scrape [one] fat belly as I dive past. Then I am caught in the slipstream, buffeted about so violently that ... I wonder if my tailplane has been shot away . . . Damn all this metal...