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When a mass of Chinese soldiers burst out of a concealing curtain of brush and charged Company E, 19th U.S. Infantry Regiment, last Nov. 5, there seemed, in the first split second, nothing that any man could do to stop them. The men of the 19th were caught by surprise in scattered holes and ditches along a ridge near Chonghyon. The Chinese started their dash only 100 ft. from the 19th's most forward outpost...
...seven out of ten days. When the G-4 mentioned the lack of refrigerators, Ridgway snapped, "The winter will give you time to work out the refrigeration problem." Back at his headquarters, he called in to his aide, Lieut. Colonel Walter Winton, "Walter, get word to Signal Corps to brush up on message pickups...
...whom to notify when he dies. ¶How to dress in the office ("Grecian sandals are not appropriate"). ¶How to begin a letter to the Lord Chief Justice of England ("My dear Lord Chief Justice"), and to the Commissioners of the City of Buffalo ("Sirs"). ¶ How to brush off a begging letter to the boss ("I wish I could, but I can't. I have come to the sad conclusion that I am carrying all the Good Causes I can possibly tote around"). ¶How to keep flowers from wilting in the office ("Carnations and snapdragons...
...bombs if the Red army marches into Western Germany. This winter's shifts in the U.S. attitude give the Kremlin reason to fear that other flagrant aggressions by the Red army will call forth the full power of U.S. retaliation. But the Kremlin knows it can still start brush fires which the U.S. and its allies will have to handle on a local, not a global, basis. Korea brought home to the U.S. the realization that in the long run it could not build enough fire engines to cope with all the brush fires world Communism could start; eventually...
...maneuvers near Istanbul, Yamut asked American advisers to show his officers what jeeps, trucks and tanks could do in the rough terrain. He followed the lead jeep as it bounced and slushed through brush, forests and mud hills. Not satisfied to allow his general officers to stand around observing, he herded them into other jeeps or tanks and sent them careering in the dust and mud until they were so dirty the red stripes on their uniform trousers were hardly visible. Next day he sent the shocked generals slithering through sandy terrain in the same jeeps. A few vehicles turned...