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...General James Van Fleet, the light plane carrying Under Secretary of the Army Archibald S. Alexander crash-landed on a mountainside near the eastern front. He telephoned the U.S. to assure his wife that his injuries were slight (two black eyes, a bump on the head, one broken foot bone), then flew home to a big welcome in Washington...
...lying on a blanket on a table in a log cabin. She was conscious. He gave her a sedative and scrubbed up while his instruments boiled on the wood stove. Two men held gas lanterns and two flashlights while he operated. It was a bad fracture: many pieces of bone, including a large part of the eye socket, were pressed in on the brain...
...Bone-Dry Tinder. All of those advantages, so painfully won, could be lost in a few months after a Korean cease-fire if the West lapsed into complacency. If rearmament slackened off, if the U.S. reduced its efforts to bolster up threatened Asiatic countries, if the West made concessions on Formosa or U.N. membership for Red China-then the Korean War would not have been worth the West's fighting...
...longer bleeding, the Chinese Communists could now push harder at Indo-China and the rest of South Asia. Relieved of the burden of supplying a deadlocked war in Korea, world Communism could now turn more energetically to the tactics that suited it better. The world was speckled with bone-dry tinder piles-Berlin, and all of Germany, Yugoslavia and, on top of the list, Iran...
Farmer Wilber Cochel, 73, tall and bone-thin, and the manager of 410 rich Missouri acres near Kansas City, was breaking in 15 new hands this week. They did not know much about farming; they were all Episcopal divinity students. "They're as green as can be," said he. "They don't know a manure fork from a hay fork . . . That doesn't do the farm profits any good." But Farmer Cochel is not primarily interested in the profits. His most important crop these days is well-rounded clergymen...