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Siberia & Bunker Hill. The Marines had no chance to get rusty, as General Selden had feared they might. The Chinese Reds began a "creeping war" against their positions. Fortnight ago a beefed-up Chinese platoon attacked a small Marine force on "Siberia," an insignificant hill about four miles east of Panmunjom. In 26 hours Siberia changed hands nine times. When the enemy took it for the fifth time and showed signs of holding on, the U.S. position looked untenable. For two days, Marine artillery and planes raked Siberia. Then, early last week, the Marines occupied "Bunker Hill," which is higher...
...fortnight ago, at the mouth of a huge bottle-shaped abyss near the Spanish frontier in the Pyrenees, Loubens and twelve other Belgian, French and British spelunkers! led by famed Belgian Physicist Max Cosyns, set out to break their own record. Their wives, resigned to indulging their husbands' odd vacation hobby, stayed together at a nearby hotel...
Prices were also going up in other fields. Food prices jumped more than 1% in a fortnight to an alltime high; and the drought (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would probably send them higher. In the textile industry, mills operating at half speed only a few months ago were close to capacity, and prices of such items as acetate rayon yarns were boosted last week...
During a checkup after his sinus surgery a fortnight ago, doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital discovered that Senator Joseph McCarthy needed still more patching, and ordered an operation for diaphragmatic hernia. After successful surgery, McCarthy was told that the original ban on his politicking would be extended from six weeks to at least two months. Among those who agreed to lend their voices and pinch-hit in his campaign for reelection: Arthur Bliss Lane, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Poland, who will make an anti-Communist speech...
...Fortnight ago, McHugh's city room phone rang. It was a friend of Knetzer's. McHugh invited him over to the Herald-American, where he produced an 18-page statement from Knetzer. "We'd like to talk to Knetzer himself," said Reutlinger persuasively. "He's in Omaha," the man answered readily, and agreed to drive out with McHugh...