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Ruin & Rubble. The Hungnam dock area itself was already a torn and twisted slag heap of rubble and debris left earlier by U.S. strategic bombing attacks. The concrete warehouses at the dockside had somehow escaped major damage, but most of the rest of the port facilities were in complete ruin-huge gas storage tanks crumpled up like discarded beer cans, power plants stripped of their heavy, concrete walls, their generators rusting slowly away beneath alternate snow and freezing rain. Here & there stood long lines of brand-new, Japanese-made freight cars, their gleaming white sides neatly marked with the insignia...
...complaint was not that the stockpile was too small, but that the U.S. had set out on a "reckless" stockpiling of everything that was scarce. "American buyers right up to the Pentagon," said one British government consultant, "have been rattling around Europe buying metals from every scrap heap...
...Frost is outstandingly the greatest living American poet, and his works will appear in anthologies of English poetry when the ridiculous stuff of the Eliots and the Audens has been relegated to the literary rubbish heap where it belongs...
...pursuit. Inside a railway tunnel ten miles north of Sunchon, a South Korean soldier pointed out the bodies of seven American soldiers who had starved to death. Then, on the bridge above the tunnel, appeared five haggard, hysterical G.I.s. They guided General Allen to a small gully where a heap of 17 bodies lay hidden by underbrush. Another pile of 15 lay sprawled in a cornfield. Others lay in a mass grave by the railroad tracks. General Allen counted 68 dead. There were 21 survivors, who were immediately flown to Japan...
...other old time greats are taking hard knocks from this new high-pressure game too. Notre Demo also has been jolted from the top of the heap, losing to a couple of johuny-come-lately squads like Purdue and Indiana...