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Last month, when the Eighth Army won Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge, on the rugged sector north of Kumhwa, it was a joint effort by South Koreans and by Americans of the U.S. 7th Division (TIME, Oct. 27). Later, Triangle as well as Sniper was taken over by Koreans of the ROK 2nd Division, commanded by Lieut. General Chung II Kwon, who last week was appointed deputy commander of Major General Reuben E. Jenkins' IX Corps.* Chung's men stood fast against continuous Chinese probes, and General Mark Clark, on a tour of the front lines, praised them...
...soldiers who fire guns, even for practice, in the Western Sector of Berlin have to be mighty careful, for Russian-held territory lies on every side. The only rifle range found suitable for U.S. troops is adjacent to popular, perennially crowded Wannsee Beach. One morning two weeks ago, as Major General Lemuel Mathewson's sharpshooters were at their daily target practice, a stray bullet nicked a seven-year-old girl building castles in the Wannsee sand. The child recovered nicely, but the general, to play safe, ordered the beach closed on weekday mornings thereafter...
...East Germany free passage to Berlin. At the last minute, the Reds, as usual, broke their promises. Sixty special trains scheduled to bring pilgrims to the congress were canceled. So were the arrangements to furnish temporary living quarters for visitors in 92 schools in the city's Eastern sector. Nevertheless, 100,000 Catholics from the Eastern zone straggled into the city on foot, on bicycles or crowded regular trains...
...division, now commanded by Major General John T. Selden, was due to go into reserve. But Selden, a tall, sharp-eyed Virginian who enlisted as a Marine private in 1915, asked General Van Fleet to keep the division fighting. Van Fleet agreed, and assigned the Marines to the Panmunjom sector, astride the invasion route from Pyongyang to Seoul...
...Berlin, there were crowds of people . . . people pushing at me their passports or their travel papers to indicate that they lived in the Eastern Sector of Berlin or in the Soviet Sector somewhere, and asking for a word or something, some expression, some chance to talk with me for a moment or two. One old lady saying that this was something she was going to cherish for months and months . . . that she had spoken to me and that I represented America...