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...French and Annamite peddle silks and souvenirs, white-topped Vietnamese police amble along, Foreign Legionnaires crowd sidewalk cafes, civilians in shorts sip cafe au lait in front of the fashionable bar of La Pagode. Women, slim and petite, add color with their cai-at (a vivid silk gown split at the hips, worn over silk pajamas...
Robert Miller* of the U.P. gave appalling details of this action: "There were only 30 soldiers left out of an American company of 148 that left Japan two weeks ago. Fewer than 20% of the wounded were being evacuated." Lieut. Junior Childers of San Jose, Calif, said: "They split my company before we could get into the fight. It was a slaughterhouse. They mounted machine guns on hills above us and swept us clean. Then they threw 20-millimeter air bursts around us. Below us, tanks opened up. Nine men dropped around me and I brought out three...
...good grey New York Times waited until the marriage had taken place, then turned in a split decision. Like the Herald Trib, it buried the story (on page 72). But like the News, it headlined the story : MISS ANNE MATHER MARRIED TO NEGRO...
...statesman who is called upon to say a few words to the newly educated might feel he must take as his text the state of the world and what it means as a challenge to this new generation. Really when you talk of the East West split, or the threat of new ideologies to our traditional way of life, it is all entirely relevant but just a little far afield...
Then, as suddenly as it had started, the selling ebbed. Orders to buy trickled, then flooded into the market-mainly for General Motors, which had announced its proposed two-for-one stock split the night before. G.M. took off on a climb from 89-5/8, its low for the day, to 91--a gain of more than 7 points (and far above its 1929 high of 91¾. The demand spread to other blue-chip stocks. By day's end the Dow-Jones industrials had regained all their losses and then some...