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Watchful Waiting. The U.S., said 76-year-old Herbert Hoover in a radio speech to the nation, should, in effect, be prepared to abandon Asia and Europe to Communism, and to build the Western Hemisphere into "the Gibraltar of civilization." It should cut its world commitments down to a cordon of ocean bases-Formosa, the Philippines and Japan in the Pacific, and Britain, "if she wishes to cooperate," in the Atlantic...
...Pentagon men were saying last week that Mao Tse-tung would not like to pay the price of prolonged sieges of U.S. beachheads, buttressed by all the fire power that artillery, airplanes and warships could bring to bear. And even if the Chinese should force the U.N forces to abandon the Seoul-Inchon perimeter, they would have a still harder nut to crack at Pusan. The farther south they go, the longer their supply lines would be and the more vulnerable to attack...
...boss at Notre Dame was in no doubt. Last week, at the annual football dinner, President John J. Cavanaugh announced that Leahy was getting a "substantial" increase in salary (this year estimated at $15,000). Furthermore, in case anybody thought Notre Dame was going to 1) abandon big-time football, or 2) join in "the chicanery" of checkbook recruiting, he was mightily mistaken. "We are flatly and irreconcilably against paying football players directly or indirectly," said Father Cavanaugh...
...complacently called, could not go on much longer. So long as sacrifices were not being demanded of everybody, the Administration was finding it hard to demand them of anybody. Top men in industry and the professions had been turning down Government posts; no automaker wanted to abandon his market or toe a price line if no one else had to. And so it went...
...narrow mountain road which led to safety, encircling Communist troops had blown the only bridge across a reservoir. With the bridge gone, the 20,000 men of the 1st Marine Division and the Army's 7th Infantry Division last week apparently had no choice but to abandon their vehicles, take out on foot and make a 20-mile detour through enemy-infested hills...