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...Government by crony goes back much farther . . . Tacitus, Roman historian, speaks of Felix, governor of Judea in the ist Century: "This man did not think it necessary to impose any restraint on his desires. He considered his connection with the emperor's favorite as a license for the worst of crimes...
...There, as a doughboy in the 32nd Infantry Division, he was wounded in battle, contracted malaria, won the Bronze Star. After the war, he went back to the reservation at Winnebago, Neb., but soon re-enlisted as a Regular Army man. Last September, serving as a rifleman with the ist Cavalry Division above Taegu in Korea, Sergeant John Rice, 37, was killed in action...
...Early Days. The men he owes his life to are the medics and surgeons of the Army's ist Provisional Neurosurgical Detachment and its trim, brown-haired commander, Lieut. Colonel Arnold M. Meirowsky. In the early days in Korea, it often took a week or more be fore a man with a delicate head wound could be gotten to a neurosurgeon back in Tokyo. The chances of infection are great in head and spinal wounds; too many of the first cases died or suffered crippling paralysis. Nowadays, thanks to forward-area teams, wounded men are being treated...
Phase Three was the crushing Chinese offensive which almost cut off the overextended U.N. forces (mostly marines of the ist Division) in the northeast corner. At Changjin, crack Chinese divisions encircled the leathernecks. In one of the many truly epic battles, the marines made it, broke through to the sea, carrying along most of their wounded. Meanwhile, the Eighth Army, badly shaken by what everyone called the "Chinese hordes," retired all the way back past the 38th parallel, past Seoul. Finally, along a line running across the peninsula from a little below Samchok and Wonju, the Eighth stood its ground...
...contingents still on the way) was wrapped into the U.S. Seventh Army of about 90,000 U.S. soldiers already in Germany, under Lieut. General Manton S. Eddy, one of George Patton's World War II corps commanders. Other units already on the ground as occupation troops: the famed ist Division and snappy well-trained units of the U.S. Constabulary, adding up to another division...