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...attack. "The lieutenant lasted about 20 minutes," said Sergeant Lee. Then Lee was in command. "I had been with the platoon a long time," he explained diffidently. "There wasn't anyone left to lead them." The platoon fired until their guns clicked empty. The Chinese surged over the crest, and Sergeant Lee's platoon reeled 50 yards back down the hill. The sergeant carried a wounded buddy, shielding him from mortar bursts with his body. "I knew we'd have to go back up," said Lee. "I told the men to wait for ammunition...
...cleaned the area in the hollow of the joint, plunged in the needle, and almost immediately looked very crest-fallen. "Oh-oh," she said...
...crest of the controversy, Surrealist Dali bounced into Madrid with a prepared lecture on "Picasso and I." Crowds greeted him with shouts of "Viva Picasso!" Spoke Dali: "There is no difference between Picasso and myself as men. We are both painters, both Spaniards, both geniuses...
Last week's figures showed that the tide of Negro migration to the North, begun just after the Civil War, had swelled to a record crest during World War II and the postwar boom. "Nonwhite" population in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania rose by 558,135. In industrial Ohio, Illinois and Michigan, non-whites increased by 599,417. And in 1940-1950, a new magnet had appeared-California, where non-white population swelled by 328,376 in the decade...
...character already on tap: Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe). Next day, Monogram Pictures fell in line, announced that it had set up a wholly owned subsidiary to make movies for TV. Still to be heard from: any of Hollywood's major studios, now riding the crest of a new movie box-office boom...