Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...from Caobang. The Caobang garrison had already pulled out and was on its way south through the jungle. The two French columns met on Route Coloniale No. 4 between Dongkhe and Thatkhe. Numbering together more than 3,000 men, they marched southward for two days. Then, in a narrow valley, a force of 20,000 Viet Minh soldiers descended on them. Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade. They told of a bloody battle in which over 1,000 were killed & wounded, another 1,000 taken prisoner...
This week, for his yeoman work in safeguarding the lives and raising the health standards of both TVA workers and valley dwellers, Dr. Bishop, 64, got a top honor in his profession: a Lasker Award ($1,000 plus a gold copy of the Victory of Samothrace), given annually by the American Public Health Association. Three other Lasker awards went...
...scarcely settled back into private business before he got a call from George Marshall. Within a matter of days, he was back in Washington again as Marshall's Under Secretary of State. Last week Washington was on the wire again to the Lovett home at Locust Valley, N.Y. This time the caller-at the hearty hour of 7:30 a.m.-was Harry Truman himself. Now that George Marshall was back in harness as Secretary of Defense, Marshall wanted his old teammate to join him again...
...Vermont hills about Ripton, the red fires of autumn smoldered on the swamp maples and sumac, crept inward from branch tips, inched downward into the valley where the river brawls through the gorge. From a slab-wood cabin with its back set firmly against the valley's shoulder, cooking his own meals and dependent on no man, 76-year-old Poet Robert Frost last week faced the world. It is the vantage point he likes best...
...certain national sightseeing company, according to its brochure, operates out of such places as Death Valley, Carlsbad Caverns, Columbia Icefields, and Indian Detours. It also sends a bus to "Educational Boston, Cambridge, and Harvard University" at 12 noon and 3 o'clock on every day that it can round up four or more passengers. About 20 people took the noon excursion last Tuesday, including a couple from Detroit, a Latin American, and a public-relations man who spent the ride telling the Latin American about the virtues of Southern California...