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...weeks the fur trade had buzzed with talk about the latest thing in mink. "White wonder of the world," said the ads, "white as purest snow." From the Mutation Mink Breeders Association came a batch of engraved cards, with a golden crown as a crest, announcing the arrival of "this superb new fur." In Manhattan last week, at the first fur auction of the new season, it was obvious that "Jasmine," a new white fur, was indeed the new queen of the minks. It sold as high as $155 a pelt, then settled down to around $70 v. about...
This time, using grenades and satchel charges at close range, the ROKs popped the Chinese out of their lairs like rats from a burning barn. The Reds were chased across the saddle and back on to Big Nori. The ROKs might well have seized Big Nori's crest, but they could have put only a few men in the limited space on top, while the Chinese could have counterattacked with wave on wave. As a U.S. observer explained: "You can use your whole hand to hold the whisky bottle, but only a few fingers to pull out the cork...
Little Green-Clad Figures. But the Chinese were not through, by any means. At 1a.m. one night last week, they attacked Triangle with two or three battalions in line. This first sally was beaten off, but the ROKs on the crest were weakened. An hour later the enemy reformed and came on again; this time he overran the summit. Of three ROK companies which disappeared under the Red tide, 175 survivors were rounded up later. The Chinese were finally stopped at the southern foot of Triangle's steep slopes. If they advanced any farther, they would imperil...
Meanwhile, on the Iron Triangle's west face, the brave and weary ROK 9th Division was mopping up on White Horse Hill (TIME, Oct. 20). The South Koreans had found that they could hold the crest if they kept the Chinese off the neighboring knobs; and the enemy was holding by his fingernails only to three knobs, known as the Three Sisters. The Koreans tunneled under the Three Sisters, laid massive charges of TNT, and blew the knobs and most of the Chinese on them to smithereens. After that, White Horse seemed secure...
During the week the crest changed hands more than 20 times. Both sides had tanks and great concentrations of mortars and artillery. The ROKs also had planes-U.S. fighter-bombers that raked Chinese positions north of the hill with bombs, machine guns and napalm, while U.S. Sabres kept the enemy's MIGs away...