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Kumsong, the Reds' central-front bastion, and beyond Yonchon, about 35 miles to the west. On the Yonchon sector, the battered but indomitable U.S.1st Cavalry Division had been trying, against savage enemy resistance, to push the Reds out of hills from which they could fire on the rail line from Seoul to Chorwon, the allied-held west corner of the old Red Iron Triangle. Last week, as the ist Cavalry's men waded in with bayonets and grenades, enemy resistance suddenly collapsed as the beaten Chinese Communists pulled out to the north. The G.I.s moved into the enemy...
...Francisco, the free world had buttressed its bastion in the Pacific. Last week the Big Three's Foreign Ministers looked to their Atlantic defenses. Under the impetus of a new sense of solidarity, they swiftly reached tentative decisions as far reaching as those made in San Francisco...
...Didn't Know. Other Chinese attacks sputtered from Kumsong, the main Red buildup base on the central front, almost to the Yellow Sea. At the top of the "Iron Triangle," onetime Red bastion, the Eighth Army's line was bent back. At Korangpo in the extreme west, the Reds punched forward, despite heavy U.N. artillery. By week's end, the Eighth Army recaptured all the lost ground and pushed...
delegate at the truce talks. On the eastern front last week, attacking South Koreans were driven back by counterattacking North Koreans. South of Kumsong, the Reds' central front bastion, U.N. forces gained more than a mile against heavy machine-gun fire. But the general pattern was one of watchful waiting...
...Fires. When "the Lord opened the door" to Park Street, Preacher Ockenga found himself in the country's most historic bastion of Protestant conservatism. Founded in 1809 to resist the wave of Unitarianism then sweeping Boston, the high-spired church overlooking the Common got to be known as "Brimstone Corner" because of the gunpowder that was stored in its basement during the War of 1812. The fiery preaching that echoed there helped keep the nickname alive; William Lloyd Garrison gave his first public address against slavery at Park Street; Moody and Sankey led revivals there; Henry Ward Beecher preached...