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Five-Month Lull...
Jones, incidentally, drew almost as much attention as Massios. He is a balding, bespectacled gentleman whose mild manner belies his reputation as "the first man show, and during a lull in proceedings emptied his pockets of loose change and gave a demonstration of head and hand balances, including, of course, his specialty. After a couple of trials, he was able to remain two or three seconds on his thumbs, which are normally quite ordinary...
...lull in the ground action went on for four days, except for sputtering local fights. After chewing up seven of the nine Chinese regiments which had surrounded them, the marines were in sight of Changjin reservoir. The final crust of enemy resistance in that area was broken by fierce Allied air attacks with rockets and jellied gasoline. Within a few miles of the reservoir, the marines sat down. All four of the Changjin power plants were in their hands...
...merchant ships. After all, the U.S. had a mothball fleet of 2,154 World War II cargo vessels ready for action on a few weeks' notice. But last week it looked as if the time had come to start worrying about cargo ships too. Vice Admiral Edward Lull Cochrane (Ret.), Federal Maritime Administrator, warned that the U.S. did not have enough fast cargo ships. Of the mothball fleet, 1,528 were lumbering 10-knot Liberties. Only 205 were 15-knot Victory ships and last week 130 had already been put to work on the Korean...
...During a lull between visitors, he took a long, hard look down the barrel of a cannon. He vetoed the controversial basing point bill (see BUSINESS). He had waited until the tenth and last day, after which the bill would have become law without his signature. But he had intended all along to veto it, he told a caller. He felt like the blacksmith on the jury out in Missouri, said the President. The judge asked him if he felt any prejudice against the defendant. "Oh, no, judge," said the fellow. "I think we ought to give him a fair...