Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week in the stuffy green Quonset hut that is the heart of the scrubby no man's land of Panmunjom, three U.S. generals, a British brigadier and a Republic of Korea air-force officer coldly confronted 40 North Korean commissars and military men. "I have a statement to make," began Major General Homer L. Litzenberg, U.S.M.C., in a level voice. Then, while the Communists listened attentively, he told them that the U.N. Command no longer felt bound by subparagraph 13D of the Korean armistice agreement-the clause limiting introduction of new weapons into Korea...
...Kasba Mechta, reported TIME Correspondent Edward Behr, who flew in by helicopter, vultures wheeled overhead, and the wail of women filled the air. Bodies sprawled in every hut. In the mosque lay 87 grotesquely tumbled bodies; the ground was black with blood and brains. In all, the French counted 302 corpses...
Perlmutter said that the trio had camped near the foot of the mountain on Saturday night, and started for the top on Sunday. They later became separated, and when Perlmutter and Snow reached a hut at the top of the mountain they were unable to locate Flint...
...thick fog made an extensive search impossible on Sunday, and the two spent the night in the hut. They located Flint's body yesterday morning, about a third of a mile away. Flint had apparently fallen to his death during a rainstorm the day before...
...Little Hut (MGM) tries to make the moviegoer believe that when three men are marooned on a desert island with Ava Gardner, nobody does anything but talk. The point of Andre Roussin's Frenchy little farce, and the reason the play ran for four years in Paris and three in London, was that even on a desert island it is possible for a man to be "civilized"-i.e., share the wealth, even when his only asset is a wife. In the play the heroine made the merry most of her polyandrous predicament, but poor Ava gets less bed than...