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...Division fought sharp engagements. But as the week wore on, the Chinese concentrated most of their fury on the fight for White Horse. The U.N. could not tolerate Chinese on the hill. It stands near the Chorwon corner of the old Communist "Iron Triangle"; from its crest, enemy observers could look across 15 miles of flatland into the heart of the Eighth Army's fortified positipns...
...Johnson's pink tinge grew rosier during the Spanish civil war and rosier still during World War II, but the Reds were then Britain's "brave Russian allies." The real wave of indignation against Johnson's pronouncements in favor of Soviet Russia reached its crest early last year when the Red Dean journeyed to Moscow to accept a Peace Prize from Stalin. Beaming with pride over his achievement, the dean met the wave of demands for his resignation with the announcement that he had deposited the prize money ($25,000 worth of rubles) in Moscow...
...Radarange, are still too expensive or not yet ready for mass production. Raytheon, which has never paid a dividend, hopes to have them ready to cash in on when its arms orders are filled. "Our biggest test," says President Adams, "will come in 1954, when the rearmament crest is passed...
Born the year (1859) in which Darwin's Origin of Species came out, Dewey marked the crest of a tide that had begun to swell with the French Revolution. No man so completely summed up the raw, rationalistic credo of his century-belief in the here & now, in the necessity for perpetual adjustment to change, in the idea that man has no provable end, only "ends that are literally endless...
...Manhattan speakeasies 20 years ago. He cannot be libeled by caricature. The close-cropped, greying hair, the imperiously immobile face, the thin mustache and the prominent nose that terminates in a kind of bulb are even more of a Romanoff trademark than his coat of arms. His most recent crest (supplanting an elaborate compound that included a sheaf of wheat, a gargoyle and a Martini glass) is a chaste pair of back-to-back R's topped by a regal crown...