Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month, when the Eighth Army won Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge, on the rugged sector north of Kumhwa, it was a joint effort by South Koreans and by Americans of the U.S. 7th Division (TIME, Oct. 27). Later, Triangle as well as Sniper was taken over by Koreans of the ROK 2nd Division, commanded by Lieut. General Chung II Kwon, who last week was appointed deputy commander of Major General Reuben E. Jenkins' IX Corps.* Chung's men stood fast against continuous Chinese probes, and General Mark Clark, on a tour of the front lines, praised them...
Harold Gerry brought in the Crimson's fastest time, coming in in eighth place. Army, paced by sophomore Lou Olive, took five of the first nine places...
...rest of the first ten were Arnie Howe of Kirkland, fourth; Ivan Nabakov of Lowell, fifth, Guide Peroira of Eliot, sixth; John Tilton of Dunster, seventh; Bob Swett of Eliot, eighth; Dick Hooke of Dudley, ninth; and Al Joyce of Adams, tenth...
...Square Garden. ¶Pacer Good Time, a record-equaling (2:01) performance in his last race before going to stud; at Yonkers, N.Y. The victory, worth $6,750, increased Good Time's record earnings to $318,792.86. ¶Jockey Tony Despirito, 17, his 300th race this season, the eighth American rider ever to turn the trick; at Salem, N.H. Cf Australian Open Golf Champion Norman Von Nida, a playoff, 72-77, over the U.S.'s Ed ("Porky") Oliver, in the $7,840 Ampol Tournament; at Sydney...
...which will power half of Dodge's ten 1953 models. The new engine, a smaller version of Chrysler's "Firedome," has 140 h.p. (v. 103 h.p. in the old six-cylinder engine), will push the car up to around 100 m.p.h. Bill Newberg, who boosted Dodge from eighth to sixth place last year, is raising 1953 production schedules by 25%, to 312,000 cars. Said he: "We'll be knocking on the sales door right behind the first three...