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...Physical Fitness Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois, has spent the last five years testing the physical condition of 2,000 "middleaged" men (26 to 60, by his classification) from a dozen or more professions and trades. He has put more than 500 of them through a physical build-up course, and retested them at the end of it for signs of improved breathing, heart action, muscular flexibility, strength, hardness, endurance. His conclusion: cardio-vascular ailments among the middle-aged would be negligible if such people would just exercise more, eat right...
Somebody else had gone into the water a few minutes before Shirley May, but nobody had paid much attention. She was also an American, a professional swimmer named Florence Chadwick, 31, from San Diego, Calif. There had been almost no build-up for her at all. Florence had not been able to pay for the trip and training expenses, so she had taken a job as a secretary with the Arabian American Oil Co. The company had paid her way abroad; Florence had kept in practice with after-work swims in the Persian Gulf...
...most of the south coast. The U.S. left flank had been dangling somewhere near Chonju (see map); there were not enough men to extend the Allied line to the west coast, and furthermore, the U.S. left had to be pulled back as Korea's defenders retired to the build-up zone around Pusan. But the North Koreans sped the withdrawal to a dangerous pace. They simply poured around the open flank. At some points they were lightly resisted by small contingents of South Korean constabulary and marines who fired a few shots before clearing out; at other points they...
Obviously and wisely, General MacArthur was not pouring troops into the Korean battle as fast as he could.. There were two good reasons why he refrained from a headlong effort to reinforce his hard-pressed men: 1) even at the maximum rate of build-up which U.S. forces in the Far East might now attain, they had little or no present chance of launching a drive northward against the Communists; 2) with the Communists still menacing other points in the Far East (e.g., Formosa, Indo-China), it would be the height of recklessness to be sucked out of position...
...William F. Dean, had to hold a line somewhere between the battle zone and the southern supply port of Pusan. It seemed vital to hold the Sochon-Taejon-Taegu-Pusan railroad (see map)-double-tracked from Pusan to Taejon, the U.S. field headquarters-not only to feed the U.S. build-up in men and weapons but for lateral mobility behind the defense line. In the western sector, focus of last week's bloodiest fighting, Taejon and the rail line had a fine natural defense in front of them: the Kum River...