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...Miserable War. A yard from the summit the two sergeants froze. Just ahead, almost within touching distance, a Chinese stood vaguely silhouetted against the dark sky. They tensed to tackle him; their mission was to bring back a prisoner. But in that split second, warned by smell or some faint sound, the Chinese touched the trigger of his burp gun. Main shot the prisoner-to-be instantly and regretfully with his .45, but the second sergeant rolled backward down the hill with an astounded gasp, slugs in his arm, leg and belly. After that the night was noisy with gunfire...
...found in the woodwork. The most startling of all was Olga Michka, a slim, cold-eyed blonde of 33. Called before the Senators, she told a strange story of two citizenships. Her parents are both naturalized Americans who were born in Russia. Several years ago, she said, they had split over politics: her mother decided she preferred Soviet Russia, her father and brother maintained their loyalty to the U.S. "My mother always wanted to go back. Being close to her, I decided to go back with...
...nationalist-minded Latin America, foreign oil companies rarely get a chance at new concessions these days on any terms. But in Peru, "nationalist-but-realist" President Manuel Odria now offers new concessions to foreign companies on the handsome basis of a 50-50 profit split with the government. Last week, less than a month after it began to accept bids under the new oil law (TIME, March 24), Odria's Oil Bureau was swamped with some 300 claims by 15 foreign and domestic oil firms for more than 9,000,000 acres of concessions. Said Oil Bureau Director Fernando...
Meanwhile, RKO's stock, which was at 4-⅝ only two months ago when the Stolkin group took control, was down to 3⅜. In Hollywood, at least, there was some activity on the RKO lot. Though the studio had no executive producer, it was starting production of Split Second, a melodrama, the first to get under way in seven months...
...with all the stress on success, the split between white and black shoe, and the over-solicitous Dean's Office, Yale more closely resembles Harvard than it differs from it. The two institutions are as near twins as anything in the educational world; at both universities pleas for change are invariably bolstered by the telling argument, "They've been doing it this way for years up in Cambridge" or "down in New Haven," depending on where...