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...Seoul, Mayor Kim Tai Sun presented Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet with a scroll, an eight-inch silver key, a bouquet of roses and pronounced him honorary mayor of the city on its 558th anniversary as capital of Korea. A few days later, Mayor Sun was out of office. The R.O.K. government inspection committee dismissed him for embezzling several hundred million won of government funds...
...Navy was so proud of Surgeon Lieut. Joseph C. Cyr of H.M.C.S. Cayuga, that it fired off a publicity puff about him and the emergency operations he performed on wounded South Koreans. In one case, he took only ten minutes to remove a bullet lodged a quarter of an inch from a man's heart. In another, where the wounded man had a bullet through the lung, Surgeon Cyr saved his life by expertly sealing off the chest. Ashore, he performed skillful amputations by flashlight in a mud hut. In short, the navy's medical service was doing...
...Beach. As usual, three Secret Service agents were in the water near him and two more were in a small boat not far away. The men in the boat suddenly shouted with alarm. They had spotted two large grey fish about four feet long pursuing a school of four-inch garfish. The Secret Service men thought the big fish, heading for the area where Truman stood, were barracuda. Truman splashed ashore. The men in the boat hauled in General Harry Vaughan, Truman's military aide, who was farther from shore (seems he's always in deep water, quipped...
...country in the central Malayan state of Negri Sembilan. Then, mission presumably accomplished, they moved on, at the beginning of this year, to other trouble spots. Last month the Communists emerged from their jungle hideouts and ordered Bahau rubber workers to strike for a threefold wage increase. Flashing six-inch spikes and bayonets in the workers' faces, the Communists threatened to crucify strikebreakers on the rubber trees. As a warning, they chopped off the fingers of some trade unionists who turned up for work...
...claims will make rayon wear twice as long, resist shrinking, wrinkling, yellowing and harmful effects of some laundry bleaches. ¶Chrysler Corp. rolled out a sleek blue, six-passenger experimental sport car, whose hard-top body was made by Italy's Carrazzeria Ghia. Built on a 125-inch wheelbase (v. 145-2-for Chrysler Crown Imperials), the low-slung "K-310" is 18 ft. 4½ in. overall. It has the same basic engine as the Imperial, but horsepower has been stepped up from 180 to 310; the car can do 150 m.p.h. Added feature: a spare tire that...