Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Home" for the old (65) soldier. As a band oompahed Im Schdnsten Wiesengrnmde (In the Beautiful Meadow), Manstein, sallow and strained, took a bouquet of lilacs and tulips from the kiddies and said: "We hope for the reconciliation of all peoples and for unification of Europe." It was the eighth anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender...
After nearly two years as commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, strapping General James A. Van Fleet came back to the U.S. with "a profound sense of frustration." His testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the Korean ammunition shortage (TIME, April 13 et seq.) made clear some of the reasons for the frustration. This week, in the first of two articles written for LIFE, Van Fleet gives a grim warning to the U.S. against the way the U.S. is conducting the Korean War. "We have made terrible mistakes in Korea. We may be in the process...
...first few weeks of his command in Korea, recalls Van Fleet, were "among the greatest in the history of the U.S. Army." In April 1951, the Eighth Army, which Van Fleet found "fresh, hard and wiry." heroically fought far larger Communist Armies, and brought them to a standstill. In May the U.N. forces threw back another offensive, then counterattacked. For a few days while the Chinese retreated in disorder. Van Fleet saw total victory within his grasp. "Then our Government's high policy intervened, and we were ordered not to advance any farther...
...inauguration) and took a running dive back on to his old, angry anti-U.S. line. In his annual message to the reconvening Congress, Peron accused U.S. press services of an "infamous campaign of lies" to spread the idea that Argentina is undergoing a crisis. (A bomb, the eighth in Buenos Aires that day, burst one block from the Congress building while he was speaking.) That afternoon, at the jammed Plaza de Mayo, Perón blamed rising prices, the shortage of meat and the wave of bombings on an Unnamed "foreign power." Next day his newspaper Democracies, obligingly made...
Dancer was eighth, a good ten lengths behind...