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...coast. From the naval post ashore came the map coordinates of the Red troops. In Lieut, Donald A. Marksheffel's main battery plotting room, seamen worked out range and meteorological data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right, he squeezed a pistol-like trigger, firing the first gun. The ship's crockery rattled as a 260-lb. shell hurtled over the mountain...
...raked Hill 459, the valleys and road junctions around it, cutting the battlefield off from Red reinforcement. Meanwhile, in the light of the destroyer's star shells, the South Korean infantrymen cut down the attackers, dug in and held. At dawn the cruiser lifted its fire from the target hill, and hands on deck watched airplanes from the carrier Bon Homme Richard buzz inland to hit the enemy with napalm and rockets...
Prime Minister Churchill, who likes to be prepared, asked the House of Commons to re-establish the Home Guard. His reasoning: as the U.S. Air Force's principal overseas atom-bomber base, Britain might one day be the target of massive Russian paratroop attacks. Churchill's government proposed to recruit 125,000 unpaid, part-time volunteers as the nucleus of a force which could be expanded in wartime to 900,000 men. Their duties: to protect arms factories, airfields and fuel plants against saboteurs and parachutists. Each man would be issued a steel helmet and either a rifle...
...likely that "countries possessing atomic piles will store their dangerous by-products with the intention of using them to make enemy cities or industrial centers uninhabitable." He suggests that this will be done by combining the active material with fine sand and sifting it sparingly from airplanes over the target areas...
...after Gandhi's death, disciple Vinoba Bhave (rhymes with save), often called the "son of Gandhi" is leading a one-man land reform crusade. His crusade which began with remarkable success in Communist-terrorized Telingana province (TIME, June 4), now promises to sweep through India. Bhave's target: the redistribution of 50 million acres-one-sixth of the cultivated land-among India's millions of landless peasants. His argument: "In India the ideal of Ahimsa (nonviolence) has deeply influenced people's minds. We can successfully bring about peaceful social revolution by gentle persuasion. If we adopt...