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...Buildup. Even the most competent newspaper editor, says Davis, is often so convinced of the need to be objective that when he spots a "downright misstatment of facts" in a speech, he never follows it with a bracketed insert to the effect that "This simply is not so." If the Honorable John P. Hoozis is an important person, "you [may still] see him quoted at length in newspapers on almost any subject, with no indication that he knew nothing at all about it ... To do that would be editorializing, interpreting the news, failing in objectivity...
Having appraised his command and ticked off what changes he wanted made, Clark turned to the Korean dilemma. His 8:30 a.m. briefers gave him the figures on the enemy buildup-some 1,800 planes, 1,000,000 men, vast piles of war material. The general could see that the enemy, by his holding attack at the truce table, had greatly improved his position since a year ago. How had this come about...
...hotting-up along the battlefront began casually enough. Concerned by a Communist buildup in forward areas, including much artillery, the Eighth Army stepped up its patrolling and redoubled its efforts to capture enemy prisoners for interrogation. In the west near Chorwon, elements of the U.S. 45th Division attacked and seized a T-shaped hill mass from where they could almost look down the enemy throats...
...reduce our losses, and try to get a decent armistice out of it . . . There has been built up behind the Yalu River a very definite air strength that would make very dangerous any attempt to end the war at this moment, until we have a bigger buildup of our own." But he implies that he would favor counterattacks on China "if I am attacked in a broad way by anything that you can call a nationalistic attack...
...flatlands along little Bee Tree Creek outside Asheville, N.C., last week, workmen put the finishing touches on 14 metal buildings, the first units in a new $3,500,000 ordnance plant and proving ground. In the nation's snail-paced arms buildup, North Carolina's new plant is good news of a special sort: it represents the first entry of private U.S. enterprise into the complicated business of developing guns for aircraft. The company that will try the job is the Oerlikon Tool & Arms Corp. of America, subsidiary of Switzerland's century-old Oerlikon Works...