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When it comes to scouting each other's positions, U.N. observers probably have the better of it; with air supremacy over the battle lines, their plane crews have charted a growing maze of trenches, bunkers and caves, which now honeycomb almost every Red-held mountaintop and dominating ridge line. On some key peaks, the Reds, who are tireless diggers, have made perimeter entrenchments all the way around the slopes and have apparently built tunnels through from one side to another, in order to shift troops quickly and furnish impregnable shelter against allied bombs and heavy artillery. Bunkers with alternate...
Last week Dr. Howell, trailed by an entourage of officials and reporters, was hustling around in the snowy Catskills, looking for a mountaintop on which to set up radar equipment (used in spotting rain-laden clouds). The city had made a deal with a Boston weather service to tell them when clouds were heading toward the Catskills; it was converting two of its four police department airplanes to use in dropping dry-ice pellets and silver-iodide ejectors, and two city trucks to use in cloud-tickling from the ground with silver iodide when flying was not feasible...
...perfect spot for retirement, 61-year-old Donald M. Nelson las fall bought a French provincial mansion on a mountaintop overlooking California's San Fernando Valley. But retirement was too dull for the onetime head of the War Production Board. Last week Nelson came down from his mountain to become president, treasurer and a director of Colorado's Consolidated Caribou Silver Mines, Inc. In with him as vice president went Richard J. Reynolds, son of the late tobacco tycoon; and as director, Joseph B. Keenan, ex-Assistant U.S. Attorney General and prosecutor in the Tokyo war criminal trials...
...dinner (among the guests: Banker Winthrop Aldrich, Railroader Robert Young, Publisher Eugene Meyer), Johnson introduced Nehru as "a man of rare truth." Nehru rose to speak, as usual seeming only to be thinking out loud. "I am a child of the mountains . . ." he said. "Sometimes you are on the mountaintops and can see the fields and the sun. Then, often enough, you are in the valley, but you can see the mountaintop. That is enough. I had been told, I must confess, that most Americans are very hard, very businesslike. I have found no hard side. I have found Americans...
...have come down a long trail . . . We may stumble, but we will get up ... Raising India to its feet means hard work. Not so flashily dramatic, but quiet hard work. We may be on a mountaintop sometimes, and again in a valley below. This visit here is like a visit to the mountaintop, and I shall remember it when I am in the valley below...