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Brattleboro Hogback -4-10, 1 powder. Fair...
Early on a hot, clear Sunday morning this week, members of the three families began to arrive at the mountain hamlet of Mayking, in Letcher County, Ky. They parked their cars around the schoolhouse and, laden with hampers and bulging boxes of food, made their way up the hogback ridge to the old cemetery. It was the annual reunion of three fertile and ancient mountain clans that go back to the beginnings of Kentucky, There, and throughout the nation, the alfresco political season was beginning. With the Fourth of July weekend the season would be in full swing...
...Tumble Down. Ninety minutes later, in high elation, they started down. Nightfall pinned them on an icy hogback. Broennimann slipped, the rope which tied him to Marx spun out and then broke, and he tumbled 100 ft. to fetch up in soft snow with a broken rib. In darkness, his feet beginning to freeze, he got back to high camp, where Marx rejoined...
Brattleboro, Hogback: Less than one inch wet surface. Fair upper and lower...
Bloody Ridge. The 2nd Infantry had a hard fight for "Bloody Ridge," a triple-peaked 3,000-ft. hogback north of Yanggu. By last week the Red positions had been shattered by a tremendous torrent of artillery-390,000 rounds. When the doughfeet got on top, they found nothing alive but a few wounded and half-starved North Koreans, abandoned by their comrades. By U.N. count, the Reds had lost 10,500 men, including 930 prisoners...