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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighth Army moved warily northward. Two U.S. armored columns raided across the parallel on the western flank of the peninsula. One rolled up the main road north of Uijongbu toward Kumhwa; air spotters, directing artillery, helped it get back again before a Red ambush could be sprung. The second column, thrusting north of the Chongpyong Reservoir, ran into an enemy ambush of grenade and machine-gun fire, but managed to fight its way out to U.N. lines below the parallel. Along the central front above Chunchon, the enemy counterattacked; the main blow in his anticipated offensive seemed likely to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Enemy Buildup | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...have directed the Eighth Army to do so again if and when its security makes it tactically advisable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Ready to Confer | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...Eighth Army pushed slowly and methodically along the roads and over the ridge tops on the way back to the 38th parallel. Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway's men prudently refrained from pursuing the enemy pellmell, painstakingly mopped up his rearguard elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Again at the Parallel | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...layman, the most valuable essays are the expository ones on forms--such as the musical drama--and analyses of particular works. Stokowaki's rendition of Mahler's Eighth Symphony, for example, prompts a particularly cogent study on "amorphousness...

Author: By Jereme Goodman, | Title: Music Criticism At Its Best | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

...University combine the two catalogues on the first floor, thus permitting 2,000,000 duplicate cards to be thrown away. The Library would build a new charging desk and stack entrance there--"in the middle of the ten stack levels, replacing the present main entrance which is on the eighth level...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Scholars Revolt, Oppose Metcalf's Merger of Two Widener Catalogues | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

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