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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first few weeks of his command in Korea, recalls Van Fleet, were "among the greatest in the history of the U.S. Army." In April 1951, the Eighth Army, which Van Fleet found "fresh, hard and wiry." heroically fought far larger Communist Armies, and brought them to a standstill. In May the U.N. forces threw back another offensive, then counterattacked. For a few days while the Chinese retreated in disorder. Van Fleet saw total victory within his grasp. "Then our Government's high policy intervened, and we were ordered not to advance any farther...
Most of Jersey's larger cities are traditionally Democratic, and the state has been Republican for ten years, but politicos of both parties have been remarkably astigmatic toward venality great & small. When New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia threw "punks and gamblers" out of town, they migrated, almost as one. to Bergen County, N.J., and for almost ten years no politico seemed to know that they were there...
...Love. Nowadays Vinoba Bhave reads only three books: Euclid's Elements, Aesop's Fables and the Bhagavad Gita. For him, as for Gandhi, the Bhagavad Gita is the supreme book of human guidance. This great Sanskrit poem, imbedded in a larger work called the Mahabharata, is later than the Vedas and the Upanishads, and fills a role in the Hindu holy books something like that of the New Testament in the Bible. During one of his jail terms, Vinoba lectured every Sunday on the Gita. He translated it into Marathi* verse, and this work sold about a quarter...
Lowell expects operating costs to run above $350,000, but said that with a larger pool of talent, they could...
Clouded in suspicion and distrust of their loyalty, all twenty-three will certainly suffer from the Pentagon's half-secret, ambiguous statements. Their names have been released, yet no satisfactory explanation has been offered for the continued observation. The longer the Army keeps these men confined, the larger public suspicion will grow...