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...down to the enlisted ranks.* Near Waegwan a few months ago, a corporal named Everett L. Elmore headed his boat across the bullet-torn Naktong River for the enemy-held shore. Mortar shells crashed alongside, machine-gun bullets stitched a pattern against its sides. Corporal Elmore rallied his panic-stricken passengers, delivered them to the beachhead, and went back for more. On his last trip, Corporal Elmore was mortally hit. He got the Bronze Star Medal-posthumously-an award for "heroic achievement" not deemed to be of sufficient degree to merit a Distinguished Service Cross or a Silver Star...
Sixty-four influenza-stricken M.P.s (35 Laborites, 29 Tories) got out of bed one day last week, went to the House of Commons, cast their votes. When the sneezing died down, the government had defeated, by 300 votes to 289, another Conservative attempt to topple it. The issue: a Tory motion censuring the government for Britain's critical coal shortage...
...Teach My Father." Revolutions usually take place while things are getting better, but not getting better fast enough. Iranians have seen something of Western ways and techniques. They are learning rapidly that their misery is unnecessary, their lot unjust. This means that Iran is not only poverty-stricken and disease-ridden; it is also in a ferment of insecurity that runs from the peasant in his windowless hovel to the young Shah in his palace. Everybody knows that the future will be very different, but nobody has any confidence that the immediate future will be better for him. Unless economic...
...weakness, and at the same time the strength, of Seven Days to Noon is that it is not a thrilling thriller. It concerns a conscience-stricken atomic scientist who threatens to blow up London if the British government does not give up producing bombs (he gives a seven-day ultimatum which is to expire at noon--hence the title). The issue at hand, therefore, is: will he be found and stopped before he explodes his bomb? The answer is too obvious. No one can fool himself into accepting the likelihood of something so well-established as London being blotted...
...after midnight on Oct. 19, the sleeping garrison of Chamdo was awakened by the crash of explosions on the night air. Bright lights "like tiny suns" shredded the sky, as Chinese troops concealed outside the city set off hundreds of rounds of rockets, star shells and other pyrotechnics. Terror-stricken civilians ran through the streets. The cry went up that Chamdo was surrounded and resistance hopeless...