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...blackout which precipitated the student riot was caused by an engineer throwing the wrong switch in a power station at Pratt's Junction, about 50 miles northwest of Boston...
...thing that stands out about that weekend was how relaxed everybody was. Harvard cocktail parties are very nice in a more or less "reserved" way, but they don't lot themselves loose the way Dartmouth men do. As soon as I got off the train in White River Junction, I felt right at home. I started out on the wrong foot" by asking my date if I was going to play at a hotel, but everybody was so kind a friendly and informal that they all just laughed, and I knew that every thing I had heard about Dartmouth must...
Outclassed. The Communists were in precipitate flight to a new, hastily organized defensive position stretching from the peninsula's west coast near Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, to Wonsan, traffic junction and port on the eastern shore. They were heavily outclassed in equipment. The advantage of numbers had passed to the U.N. forces...
...line could not be held. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and the 25th Infantry Division arrived from Japan to help the battered 24th, and Lieut. General Walton Walker was appointed MacArthur's ground cornmander in Korea. The Americans fell back from Taejon to Kumchon, the next important junction on the rail and road line to Pusan...
...North Koreans must have felt abandoned by their Big Brothers in the Kremlin, but they fought savagely for Seoul while U.S. spearheads from the southeast raced to a junction with the 7th Infantry below Suwon. MacArthur announced the fall of Seoul eleven days after the Inchon landing (street fighting continued for three days more). While the Eighth Army, streaming out of the old perimeter in all directions, mopped up the liberated countryside, the South Koreans crossed the 38th parallel...