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...week's end the Reds were still trying. Their estimated casualties in this action alone: 2,400 dead and wounded. Major General Hobart R. Gay, the 1st Cavalry's commander, reported that the Communists were using hordes of civilians, armed only with sharpened sticks, to shield the advance of their regular troops...
...when the child was small, if she stopped in the street to clap her hands, or "if, without reason, she began to dance," passersby did not think it odd. Later, they stared. "The kid is nuts," Pearl Buck once heard a woman say. "From that day I began to shield my child...
...harder to shield herself. "I did my work . . . But none of it meant anything . . . The hours when I really lived were when I was alone with my child . , I could let sorrow have its way . . When she wept," her child would only stare and laugh, and "it was this uncomprehending laughter which always and finally crushed my heart...
...California, television took to the road when the Los Angeles-San Francisco Short Line bus company installed a set in one of its "de luxe" buses. Mounted in the paneling at the front of the bus, the set is screened from the driver's vision by a shield. Reporting that passengers "just love it," Bus President Rex White planned to equip his entire fleet...
...ruling against the state of California three years ago. But in Texas, the news struck like a tornado. Texans protested that the state's title to submerged coastal lands dated back more than 100 years to its days as an independent republic. Raged San Antonio Oilman Fred W. Shield: "It is absolutely a steal from the state of Texas...