Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intelligence information supplied by Willoughby to MacArthur. In answering this criticism, Willoughby claims that he expected to encounter "the full force of Communist China at the end of the trail" but that restrictions on acrial reconnaisance flights prevented him from getting accurate estimates of Chinese forces until the Eighth Army first met the Chinese on November 24th. So our army was shoved into the ring like a blindfolded boxer. But British and Chinese Nationalist Intelligence had both acquired and passed on information on the Chinese forces by early September, so the implication is that Willoughby's intelligence service was incompetent...
...result of this inadequate information, our armies, were wide open for the massive Chinese counter-thrust that rolled them back below the thirty-eighth parallel. General MacArthur suddenly revised his estimate of the Chinese forces upward from sixty to two hundred thousand troops and admitted his hopes of facing only a token volunteer force of Chinese were shattered. This revelation that his estimate of enemy force was based on hope and publicly announced Chinese policy spotlights the failure of his military intelligence service. And the man responsible for this failure, General Willoughby, cannot explain it away merely by exploding against...
Over-all team figures show the Crimson in seventh place on team offense and eighth on defense, with a rushing and passing average of 183.3 yards per game for themselves and 384.9 yards for their opponents...
...this study of College seniors, one-half of the members of athletic teams drink during season, one-third of the students spend less than a dollar a month on alcohol, and one-quarter of the students have passed out from drinking. Pugh adds that between one-seventh and one-eighth of the students are consistent heavy drinkers...
Americans booby trapped their own Korean policy last week, thanks to the blunder of an Eighth Army colonel. Charges by Colonel James Hanley that the Communists had murdered 5500 American soldiers prompted a series of fiery speeches by public figures from the President down. But subsequent statements from the Pentagon and General Ridgway revealed Hanley's figure as the composite of largely-exaggerated rumours, released at the worst possible time...