Word: macs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assigned in 1946 to Mac Arthur's Tokyo headquarters, Almond as acting Chief of Staff first ran G-1 (personnel). He disliked the work. "I'm an infantry soldier," he said later. "I did my best as G1, but my first love is G-3 [operations]. That's what the Army is all about." Almond was soon promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff. In 1949 he moved up to Chief of Staff. Subordinates noted that the promotion had its effect on Almond's temper. The genial deputy chief became a hardboiled, hard-driving chief...
...Most Peculiar." In the current Mac-Lean's magazine, Frank Hamilton describes Mrs. Mclsaac as one of the most remarkable stigmatics in history. Says Hamilton: "Of the wounds' existence there can be no doubt." The first of Mrs. Mclsaac's stigmata appeared in 1937-a small, painful sore on the back of her right hand. Over the next three years, other wounds developed. At the direction of James Cardinal McGuigan, Archbishop of Toronto, the church arranged for long, detailed examinations of Mrs. Mclsaac at two hospitals by Catholic, Protestant and Jewish doctors...
Military victory in Korea by the United Nations forces now seems assured unless Mac Tze Tung's Chinese Communists enter the war. All of the experts feared that war with Mac would be fruitless for both sides and Fairbank and Hopper feel that Chinese entry into the Korea fight is a possibility. Fairbank says there is still a danger of Chinese intervention if U.N. troops cross the 38th parallel. War with Red China, he said, would be a bleeding conflict in which "we could not beat them or they...
Reischauer, however, was less pessimistic on this point. "The Chinese Communists," he said, "are striving to create a strong China and are unlikely to run the cost of getting involved in Korea. Perhaps Moscow could force Mac's entry, but that will only occur if Russia is ready...
...hour and 20 minutes Hodgson played the giant fish while Guide Mac-Ritchie tried to row the boat toward shore. The tuna pulled the boat twelve miles around St. Ann Bay before it was finally played out and beached itself. During the struggle, the 9-ft.-9-in. fish bent the 3-in., U-shaped steel hook into an L. But the hook held...