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...Hill and Outpost Texas sectors. At one point, the ROKs fell back two miles. It was the biggest retreat the U.N. has made in Korea in two years. One difficulty was that commanders of new ROK divisions, for fear of losing face, had failed to report how serious a jam they were in until it was too late to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Storm Before the Calm | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Electronic Countermeasures. In Jackson, Miss., highway patrolmen were looking for the motorists suspected of building short-wave radio transmitters to jam the police radar speed detection system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...constitution promulgated in 1951, it seemed to be driving hard towards self-government, along the same boisterous lines as its rival-neighbor, Prime Minister Nkrumah's Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9). Yet last week the Colonial Office admitted that the constitution was a flop, and Nigeria in a jam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bloodshed in Nigeria | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Children's Digest meets the blood & thunder of the comic books head-on by running full-color illustrated versions of stories and poems such as Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade. Readers also get simple crossword puzzles with pictured hints, e.g., a drawing of a jam jar next to the definition. "It's good on bread." Parents' also puts out Piggety's ("The Children's Magazine of Animal Stories"), and for girls (ages eight to twelve) looking for a "service magazine," Polly Pigtails', which provides gentle tips for dieting under the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Magazines for Moppets | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

After a conference with city officials on the parking jam-ups around the Houses, Dean Leighton yesterday announced that the College would begin an immediate crack-down on violators of parking regulations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College to Crack Down On Parking Violations | 5/13/1953 | See Source »

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