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Speaking before the 38th Annual Convention of the American Council on Education, Margaret Clapp of Wellesley said trends indicate women will soon outnumber men in the nation's institutions of higher learning. In line with this rise in female enrollments, Miss Clapp warned that women will begin to take over more jobs now the exclusive property...
...foreign" (U.N. and Chinese) troops from Korea. The U.N. negotiators refused, and the matter was left off the agenda for possible solution at a post-truce political conference. The second defeat of the Communists was the breaking down of their demand for a truce line on the 38th parallel. The third-and greatest-was their failure to win repatriation of prisoners unwilling to return to Communist control. The U.N., in turn, failed to 1) get a trustworthy inspection system (i.e., one that would tie up the Reds as tightly as the allies originally hoped); 2) win immediate liberation of anti...
...once before, in November 1951. They had to be redrawn last week, after the ground-gaining Communist attacks of last fortnight. At truce time, 2,350 square miles of former North Korean territory are still left in U.N. hands, while the Communists get 850 square miles south of the 38th parallel-a net gain of 1,500 for the allies...
Article II A. All fighting stops promptly within twelve hours of the armistice signing. Within 72 hours, all troops and equipment of both sides are withdrawn from the 2½-mile-wide buffer zone. Within ten days allied forces withdraw from islands north of the 38th parallel. Rotation of 35,000 troops a month is permitted each side, but the level of existing forces must not be raised. Aircraft, tanks, artillery pieces, etc. which are worn out, damaged or destroyed during the truce may be replaced piece-by-piece...
...ready for a brave new world of peace and plenty. His younger brothers, resigned to the ugly old world of war and greed, shout no message. They argue about whether the war should have been started, whether it should have been carried into China or stopped at the 38th parallel, whether Van Fleet or MacArthur or the White House had the right solution-and they don't pretend to know all the answers. All that binds them is their common understanding of the steep ridges and the stinking paddies and the swift night attacks from the north...