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...distance with antitank guns. After that, it was clear that Kumsong was finished as an enemy base. There was no need for Van Fleet actually to occupy it until he could do so with a minimum of casualties. This week, after another bold tank raid in which the U.S. armor braved enemy mortar fire, a U.S. patrol moved up to within 600 yards of the blasted rail and road junction. Chinese | resistance seemed to have melted...
...this emotion-charged atmosphere, Moderator John Daly appears to his fans as a knight in armor holding the panel in check, giving a helping hand to the challenger, and occasionally topping Hal Block's jokes. Daly is somewhat surprised himself at his master-of-ceremonies aptitude; his background for the job consists of five years as a White House correspondent, 2½ years as a radio war correspondent and 19 weeks playing the role of Editor Walter Burns in the ill-fated TV version of Front Page...
...fire in recent weeks suggests that they have stocked more ammunition than ever before. According to allied intelligence, increasing numbers of European troops, believed to be recruited from Russia's Balkan satellites, have been brought in for training and advisory work, and to serve in the artillery, antiaircraft, armor, engineer, medical and airbase units...
...from the Alps to the Zuider Zee. Beefy burghers, dressed in furs and velvet, thronged its towns, paid out hard silver for the works of its artists and craftsmen. Last week a sparkling display of the things they bought drew 11,000 visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. The armor, jewelry, tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, furniture, banners and polychromed sculptures on show reflect one of the most sumptuous eras of all time...
...mural's other panel, Cuauhtémoc appears as a conqueror (which he was not), dressed in the armor of the men who beat him and wearing an Aztec crown. "He's a fighting symbol of our national independence," Siqueiros said, "of independence not yet entirely won." Added Siqueiros, who keeps up to date on party literature even when busy with a spray gun: "I see in Cuauhtémoc [a prototype of] Mao Tse-tung of China, Luis Carlos Prestes of Brazil, the leaders of the Viet Minh and the fighters for the nationalization of Iran...