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...first disorganized days of the Korean war, the Marines were ready again, and it was Lem Shepherd who bore the brunt of getting them into the hard-pressed Pusan perimeter. The decision to take Inchon from the sea was General Douglas MacArthur's; the men who did the detailed planning were a little group of Marine officers, and the first troops ashore were from the First Marine Division, with Lem Shepherd landing in the fifth assault wave. When Chinese hordes threatened to engulf the Marines below the Yalu River, Shepherd flew to the Changjin Reservoir by helicopter...
...barrage. What was the Buddhist attitude toward opium? What about hashish? Could the good Doctor provide a sample of opium? To the last question, Dr. Helai calmly replied that if the chairman of the meeting would examine the cigarette he had given him, he would find that it bore no manufacturer's mark. The dazed chairman took a nervous look at his cigarette and hastily scrunched...
...President Miguel Aleutian likes to claim as one of the most notable achievements of his six years in office the successful rise of Pemex, the government oil monopoly. Recently, when his government raised a monument to Pemex in Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, the pedestal bore not only the famous 1938 expropriation decree of President Lazaro Cardenas, but quotations from a 1936 pro-expropriation speech by Aleman, then the youthful governor of Veracruz. Last week, in the final month of his presidential term, President Aleman flew to the Gulf Coast jungles to inspect Pemex' new Tenixtepec...
...made a similar statement in the form of a letter of to The New York Times last spring. The letter itself did not refer to the University, but bore Whatmough's title under his signature...
...time she married Bing, newspapers headlined, DIXIE LEE MARRIES BAND SINGER, and a Hollywood producer warned: "You will have to support him for the rest of your life." As her husband's success grew (he is long since a multimillionaire), she retired from the theatrical limelight, bore four sons. Following an abdominal operation, she got out of bed last week, against doctor's orders, went to the railroad station to welcome Bing back from moviemaking in France. Next day she asked to join the faith of Bing and her four sons, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church...