Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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TIME'S editors attempted to answer that question with a map (herewith reprinted). It shows the week's combat zone, and the zone that U.S. troops would have to fall back to in order to hold off the enemy. The perimeter of this "Comeback Zone," as it turned out, was almost exactly the same as the line of the beachhead subsequently held by U.S. & U.N. troops. The beachhead covered the maximum area which three or four well-armed U.S. divisions plus regrouped South Korean troops could hold...
Time was when a small American who got vaccinated and looked both ways before crossing streets had a reasonable chance of outliving his boyhood. But a new complication to survival has been added. One recent treatise on the subject seriously inquired: "Can Junior fall instantly, face down, elbow out, forehead on elbow, eyes shut? Have him try it tonight as he gets into bed." Junior could probably do the trick all right. A little practice and an understanding of the situation might save the life of a small boy born into the Atomic Age. The treatise-explained how: "Junior will...
...city directors of civilian defense to work beyond and below the state level. The enormous task of organizing the defenses of New York City fell to Arthur W. Wailander, onetime police commissioner, now on leave from a job with a utility company. On Wallander and his staff would fall the burden of trying to pick up the shattered pieces of humanity, industry and communications while aid, directed by Clay's state organization, was arriving from outside...
Last spring the University pushed up the deadline for fall final study cards, so undergraduates will find their course shopping time this year somewhat abbreviated. But there are current courses which stand out for their lecturers or materials or both, and there is still time for undergraduates to look over a good many of them...
...anyone who wants to see the Harvard football team play this fall and can't make the price of the seats, the Harvard Athletic Association has the solution. Every fall a number of students, Business School men among them, act as ushers at all home games. There is no remuneration except a free pass...