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Kimpo airfield was easier than expected. As the U.S. Marines moved west from Inchon toward Seoul, the only defense of Kimpo (South Korea's best airfield) was a brave but hopeless charge by several hundred green Communist security troops. The marines waited until the screaming Reds were a few yards away, then mowed them down. Said a sweating U.S. staff sergeant: "It was just plain murder...
Eight long years later, Kansas decided to overhaul its mental hospitals with the help of the Menninger Clinic. Active treatment, designed to cure patients and return them to a place in society, was substituted for passive, hopeless "patient care." That was how Mrs. X met Dr. James M. Mott Jr. Young (29), redheaded Psychiatrist Mott found her amazingly spry for a woman of 72 who had been pent up for 17 years. She had enough energy to badger him unmercifully with her delusions. But soon it appeared that his regular visits gave her a sense of security. Dr. Mott...
...stays at or near its present defenseless state. These two facts, considered coolly, mean that the U.S. has only two practical courses: 1) demand a maximum effort toward rearmament by European nations, or 2) pull out of Europe militarily and economically rather than waste men and materials on a hopeless proposition...
...editors were agreed on one more point: if a young reporter "has the makings of a newspaperman, he will probably be a good one. If he hasn't, he will be hopeless regardless of the education...
...visiting anthropologist who knew very little about the U.S.-say, Englishman Geoffrey Gorer-were to read these two collections of stories, he might easily conclude that the U.S. is suffering from a hopeless schizophrenic split. And he might get just as wildly off base by picking up either one by itself...