Word: returns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Tokyo bureau chief, who was injured when a bridge blew up under him during the evacuation of Seoul, missed being ambushed by about five minutes last week. He had gone out with an intelligence and reconnaissance patrol on Friday, but had to turn back late in the afternoon to return to the regimental command post and prepare to fly to Tokyo to file his copy. A few minutes after he had left, the patrol was ambushed by North Korean infantry. Gibney's cable added that his new eyeglasses had arrived on schedule. His only pair had been broken...
...prevailing American attitude is that any help to Formosa, military or economic (beyond the present ECA program), would be a mistake because it would build up the Nationalist government, again identify the U.S. Government with it, and thereby contribute to the Nationalist return to the mainland so ardently opposed by our State Department...
Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin St. (Sat.,10 p.m., NBC). Return of a hot jazz show...
...possible that [the colleges] are not too far advanced in their retrenchment to set up a joint institute for the study and promotion of the advantages of a stable dollar . . . With inflation stopped, college presidents could ignore pork barrel contracts and perpetual road shows for fund raising [and] could return to their offices to plan the orderly development of their institutions...
During the convoy's return trip several unidentified planes were sighted. The jeeps emptied in a rush as their occupants dived for the cover of roadside woods. MacArthur did not dive. He stepped sedately from the black sedan, walked away a few steps and gazed nonchalantly at the sky until the planes were gone. Then he dusted his leather jacket carefully and returned...