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...Chinese counterattacked, behind heavy artillery and mortar barrages, and at one stage of the battle the Americans were clinging to a southern knob of the T while fighter-bombers blasted the Chinese positions by day and by night. It was still a small-scale action in contrast to the giant Communist offensives and allied counteroffensives in the spring of 1951, but it involved battalions and regiments instead of squads and platoons, and it was the fiercest fighting of 1952. Hundreds of Reds were reported killed and the U.S. casualty rate also rose...
...most successful player-topping all comers in prize money for five seasons-he still lacked some ingredients. He could not leave his work on the golf course, but let his passion for perfection rule his whole existence. His keen eyes noted such minute details as the fact that one knob on a hotel bureau drawer did not match the other. His finicky palate rebelled at restaurant food from Kalamazoo to California; unless a steak was cooked just so, back it would go to the kitchen. Only in his treatment of Valerie, his wife, did he show a gentle side...
...nations, enemy and friendly, in history's best-photographed war. For a look at this work, I recently dropped by Jack's editing room to find him barricaded behind some 10,000 feet of film for the twelfth chapter, "The War at Sea." As he flicked the knob of his film viewer, I saw a periscope's view of a torpedo-blasted Japanese ship. Another strip showed another side of the submariner's life-a U.S. jazz trio playing a jam session 150 feet under the sea. He showed me many other interesting strips-a Navy...
...four evenings a week, when the day's chores are done, they take off over the ridges to school. From Red Knob, five miles away, from Short Bark community, from Tellico Plains, where wild boar hunts are still held in the fall, they hike to the sloping green campus. In a classroom of the main college building, they sit in small groups, divided according to background and ability. Mrs. Frances Cope Murrell, the patient, even-tempered woman who does most of the teaching, moves from one group to another, coaching them through the rigors of long division, watching over...
...number of stations other than the bridge. The "helmsman," already being installed on several Navy ships, is a portable control box which can be plugged into outlets leading from many parts of the ship to the steering mechanism in the stern. The helmsman's "wheel" is simply a knob on the control box. Sample uses: to replace the main steering station if the bridge is knocked out, or if the helmsman wants to steer from a better vantage point when picking up planes, docking, fueling...