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...immediate prospect before Omar Bradley directly suggested the end of a war, or even the end of a campaign. But in the eye of his keen, analytical mind General Bradley could see beyond the belching, jerking guns, the wallowing tanks, the struggling infantrymen. The armies on the south flank of the Allied Line were moving faster than he, because they were exploiting a weakness which already existed. Bradley was busy creating a weakness-one which may be fatal to Germany...
Even if the thin line of U.S. youngsters on the south bank of the Kum had miraculously prevented a single Communist from crossing, they would have had to pull out of the salient around Taejon anyway. The Communist drive on their right flank (see below) threatened to cut the rail line, perhaps encircle and destroy the forces on the U.S.'s first line of defense. After delaying the enemy as much as they could, their main business was to get out alive and intact...
...Shortest Possible Time." Meanwhile, on the Americans' right flank, the invigorated South Korean army was fighting valiantly (see below), but its units also fell back when the U.S. withdrawal exposed their left flank...
...vast Mauna Loa erupts about once every three years, but this time was different. At 9:20 p.m., clouds over the 13,675-ft. peak parted to uncover a glow seen 200 miles away. Not from the crater, where it usually erupts, but out of the southwest flank of the mountain melted rock burst and shot 300 ft. up; steam shot higher to 20,000 ft., striking a passing plane. Through two other vents in the slope, streams of glowing lava oozed out, surged 25 miles...
...small square of muddy city land, sandwiched between a machine shop and a warehouse, stand the murky stables of Gopal Ganpat, Bombay dairyman. Inside the stables, 300 buffalo cows are jammed flank to flank, and behind the stables, fringed by manure, is the pool where Ganpat washes himself, his cows, and his milk containers. "He probably uses the same water to adulterate his milk," said a government guide to a newsman last week...