Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...North Koreans must have felt abandoned by their Big Brothers in the Kremlin, but they fought savagely for Seoul while U.S. spearheads from the southeast raced to a junction with the 7th Infantry below Suwon. MacArthur announced the fall of Seoul eleven days after the Inchon landing (street fighting continued for three days more). While the Eighth Army, streaming out of the old perimeter in all directions, mopped up the liberated countryside, the South Koreans crossed the 38th parallel...
Should Indo-China fall, the neighboring countries would be untenable against the Reds. Siam, a happy, well-fed land whose ill-equipped army (30,000 men) and relaxed government could not withstand aggression. Malaya, where Malayan and crack British forces (85,000 men) have been trying for more than two years to finish off an estimated 3,000 Red guerrillas, is a baffling headache to the British. Burma has managed (more or less) to subdue its gun-toting Communists and the tough Karen rebels, but the country is still highly unstable. Fall of these countries in turn would directly menace...
...stabbed across the 38th parallel and up the Sea of Japan coast. Their initial thrust took Yangyang, seven miles north of the border, and reached Kansong, more than 20 miles farther on. Red fortifications were mostly unmanned and resistance negligible. Captured North Koreans said they had been ordered to fall back to Wonsan, 70 miles above the 38th parallel, for a stand...
...foreign-exchange speculators, the decision for a free dollar was a temporary setback. If they rushed in to convert their money back to U.S. cash, the Canadian dollar might fall below 90? and they would take a loss. Their best bet now was to sit tight and wait for the Canadian dollar to show what it could do. This week, a few hours after trading opened, it was selling at 94½? in New York, 95? in Montreal and 96½? in London...
After sinking an estimated $25 million into his newspaper ventures, Marshall Field III had been loosening his grip on the editorial direction of his surviving daily, the tabloid Chicago Sun-Times (circ. over 610,000 daily). Last fall, though he kept the title of publisher, Field gave 34-year-old Marshall Field Jr. a lift up the ladder; he gave him day-to-day command of the news room to be shared with 50-year-old Managing Editor Milburn ("Pete") Akers (TIME, Nov. 14). This week, the elder Field made the transfer of power complete. He gave up his title...