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...more than an hour the assault force stumbled and struggled forward against a solid wall of fire. A Red mortar was knocked out by artillery, but the machine guns and automatic weapons continued without letup. As the marines neared the crest, their line ripped apart; the North Koreans rose from their positions and came forward throwing grenades. The Reds were cut down but not before their grenades had done terrible work among the marines...
...attached. As the farmer's production went up, so did his profits-and his prices. As the quid pro quo for his vote for vitally needed wartime price controls, the Farm Bloc Congressmen got even higher parity prices and a law decreeing that they would be extended without letup for two years after hostilities ended...
...existing municipal power plant. Lindseth helped drum up an opposition which united management, labor and newspapers on C.E.I.'s side. Private ownership won. But Lindseth isn't letting his guard down. Says he: "The cold war against freedom of enterprise here in America is being waged without letup. We can't afford to become complacent...
...there was no letup in the heavy sales of durable goods. Consumers had more money to spend: in January, the Department of Commerce said, personal income reached an annual rate of $212.9 billion, the highest in twelve months...
...Angeles (TIME, Nov. 14), Billy Graham worked hard for the Lord. Flailing his arms, crouching and pointing, coiling his big (6 ft. 2 in.) frame around the Bible he read from, or passionately wrestling with the microphone, he gave his audiences not a moment's emotional letup. But to oldtimers who remembered another generation of revivalists-Sam Jones, Gypsy Smith, Sunday himself-Graham and his entourage looked disturbingly like something out of Hollywood. His sharply cut double-breasted suits and high-decibel ties, like those of his Co-Evangelist Grady Wilson, 30, and black-haired, 26-year-old Platform...