Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan. Big Jim Fuchs, the New York A.C. shot-put title, with a 58-ft-3½-in. heave, to break his own American indoor record of 57 ft. 7¼ in.; Don Gehrmann his first Baxter mile and 38th consecutive win, by 4 ft., over Fred Wilt in a fast...
Meanwhile, in Washington President Truman said that Allied troops are still operating under United Nations authority to cross the 38th parallel. The extent they would cross the line, he added, was a matter of military strategy in the hands of General Douglas MacArthur...
...North Koreans were defiant enough to transgress even this restricted legal loop. The U.N. instantly reacted. But when Mac Arthur was chasing the Korean Reds toward the 38th parallel, an outcry arose that showed how deeply the border-crossing fetish had sunk into the Western mind. MacArthur, it was held, would in become an aggressor if he crossed the parallel in pursuit of the criminal force...
Said a U.S. officer, who had hoped that Douglas MacArthur's coast-to-coast line below the 38th parallel could be held: "What are you going to do when the enemy doesn't care how many men he loses...
...their first inter collegiate meet, the ski team yesterday took 21st, 35th, 38th, 54th, and 56th places in a large field of entrees. John Hart did the course at Jackson, New Hampshire, in 57:24, best time on the Crimson squad but almost five minutes behind the winning time...