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BATTLE OF KOREA Night & Day Just after midnight one night last week, some 750 Chinese Reds tried to storm a western-front strong point called T-Bone Hill, after stealthily cutting the U.N. barbed wire in the darkness. The next night, after an artillery and mortar barrage of 2,500 rounds, the Reds overran an eastern-front position called Luke the Gook's Castle, were later beaten off. Both attacks served merely as harassments, but they helped to make the winter nights ugly for U.N. troops. Shivering in three-above-zero cold on the Imjin sector, an 18-year...
...three boys, each around 3¾ lbs. This week, the triplets were doing fine in incubators. ¶More teeth are lost from pyorrhea than decay, Tuft's College Professor Irving Glickman told Greater New York dentists, and pyorrhea is essentially a disease not of the gums but of bone. Treatment, therefore, must cover the patient's calcium metabolism and hormone balance, not just his mouth...
...League record books. He picked up such nicknames as the "Redskin Rifle," the "Sweetwater Stringbean," and, naturally, "Slingin' Sam." And in the rough & tumble N.F.L., sinewy Sam Baugh, the kid who was once considered too fragile for college football, never once had a serious injury, never broke a bone...
Piper's latest subjects are conventional enough: fountains and flowers, church courtyards, an island hotel, a village pump, a lime kiln. What made the paintings unmistakably Pipers were the colors and compositions. There were great swatches of bright yellow and bone white against russet and black, planes of dark shadows with fiery pinwheels of yellow, white and red. And the scenes had an air of amiable ruin: old fonts and arches decked in new flowers. In no time most of the 31 pictures were sold or spoken...
...help "weed out the quacks and illiterates from among the medicine men," as Somo put it. The school will be in a two-story building, with shops for witch doctors and herbal-I ists on the ground floor. In its syllabus will be a course in "throwing the bones" -a method of diagnosis in which four-inch pieces of ivory or ox bone are dropped on a sanded floor...