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...Legion bravely compares its 18% decline to the 28% loss suffered in the comparable period after World War I. Organizers say that demobilized men join the veterans' outfits, get married, drift out of contact with their organizations, then renew membership after a few years. They hope the veterans-organization picture will be brighter before...
...compensation for Kaesong. The Reds refused. Next, the U.N. negotiators offered to pass the buffer zone directly through Kaesong-in other words, to make it a neutral city held by neither side. Again, the Reds refused. Finally, in mild desperation, the U.N. suggested that the line be left to drift with the battlefront and be adjusted as the last piece of business before signing the armistice. "Unfair," the Reds cried. A few days earlier, Matt Ridgway had told visiting diplomats that he was "never more confident of an early settlement...
...escape was to be inconspicuous. Greene learned to drift off by himself, against the rules, to Berkhamsted's beautiful common, a "wilderness of gorse, old trenches, abandoned butts." (Once he ran away from home and hid out on the common; it was a deeply humiliating anticlimax when his big sister flushed him out after a few hours.) A boy could also escape by reading. Graham was 14 when he read Marjorie Bowen's * The Viper of Milan, a melodramatic yarn about a war between the dukes of Milan and Verona, and "from that moment I began to write...
...crew were dead, 18 injured. She was the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to strike a Communist mine. Mines, cheap to lay, hard to find and hazardous to hit, are the real peril of the Korean seas. Communists lay them at night from sampans, frigates, barges and junks. They even drift them downriver. The location and dispersion of mines on the east coast above the 38th parallel indicate that some may be sown by Russian submarines...
...England, no business problem is more pressing than the drift of the textile industry to the South, lured by cheaper southern labor and new plants financed by southern cities. How can the industrial migration be stopped? Last week, New Hampshire businessmen and state officials planned a banquet for a man who had shown them how it can be done. His name: Mack Kahn...