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...military government officers in North Korea, Munske's work is complicated by a high-level snafu. U.S. Civil Assistance Teams have been given no clearly defined political objectives, and each team is theoretically responsible only to the U.S. tactical commander in its area. In the Pyongyang area the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team is trying to set up local administration in the small communities around the city. The airborne officers are working hard, but they are not trained for the work, and it seems doubtful that their efforts will have any lasting effect...
Over Korea the SCAP joined an armada of 80 C119s and 40 C-47s which carried the men and equipment of the 11th Airborne Division's 187th Regiment. From Seoul's Kimpo Airport the airborne task force flew deep into North Korea. There, while MacArthur's plane circled overhead, one battalion of paratroopers dropped on Sukchon, 26 miles northwest of Pyongyang, another battalion at Sunchon, 28 miles northeast of Pyongyang...
...issue of October 2 under the head of Education, it is unfair to Duke. These three statements are made in the article. "Eight-year-old Duke University near Durham, N. C., announced the beginning of its 98th year.". . . "Harvard University entered its 298th year." . . . "Princeton University opened its 187th year." The three universities all date back to their humble and modest beginnings. Duke began 98 years ago as York Academy, then Trinity College and more recently Duke University. Harvard began as Newton's College, changed to Cambridge College, again to Harvard College and finally to Harvard University. Princeton...
Princeton University opened its 187th year with a new president, Dr. Harold Willis Dodds. English Professor Robert Kilburn Root is dean of the faculty succeeding Mathematician Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, now dean of the Graduate School. Princeton men noted three new buildings rising not far from their chapel. Anonymously donated, they will house the famed Westminister Choir School, founded seven years ago by Dr. John Finley Williamson and largely supported by Mrs. Harold Ellstner Talbott of Dayton, Ohio...