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Squishy Trails. With its headquarters on 113 acres of Civil War battleground at" the District-Maryland line, Walter Reed has mushroomed since it opened in 1909 as a memorial to the famed conqueror of yellow fever. For all its latter-day interest in such matters as freeze-anesthesia and radiation sickness, the Army must still, like Reed, plod squishy jungle trails to track down diseases that beset its men in the tropics. Among Walter Reed's works-in-progress...
...Tudor Pictures) is a rare piece of work by any standards. Filmed in color (with English narration) under the auspices of France's Ministry of Defense, Heartbreak tells the story of the famed French battalion in Korea. The soldiers of the battalion are the cast, the actual 1952 battleground is the setting. The director and a cameraman were wounded by Communist fire while filming it. Not since John Huston's San Pietro (1945) has a film shown in the U.S. come so close to capturing the painful reality of foxhole...
...Living) Yutang resigned his post as chancellor of newborn Nanyang University (TIME, Aug. 16). Ostensibly, the row was over the school's first budget and operating policies. But behind the scenes, Nanyang, set up primarily to win Oriental minds for the West, was an ideological morass, a battleground where the Communists had already opened a rabbit-punch struggle to capture minds for their own cause. In despair and frustration. Dr. Lin, more a scholar than a dynamic educator, capitulated...
...battleground shifted to the White House, where the President was asked by newsmen about the $20 cut. Ike said sharply "When we talk about decreasing revenues at a time when the Government, in spite of every saving we have been able to make, is still spending somewhat more than it takes in, we are reaching some kind of heights in fiscal irresponsibility...
...shoulder and knocked him down. His brother Sterling was hit twice in the back, but fired back, wounding one hunter in the head and killing another. After about 30 shots, the hunters drove away with their casualties, leaving the two wounded brothers for dead. "It looked like a battleground," a deputy said later. "Bushes were shot away, trees were hit, and there was blood all over the road...