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...Just after midnight one night last week, some 750 Chinese Reds tried to storm a western-front strong point called T-Bone Hill, after stealthily cutting the U.N. barbed wire in the darkness. The next night, after an artillery and mortar barrage of 2,500 rounds, the Reds overran an eastern-front position called Luke the Gook's Castle, were later beaten off. Both attacks served merely as harassments, but they helped to make the winter nights ugly for U.N. troops. Shivering in three-above-zero cold on the Imjin sector, an 18-year-old soldier from The Bronx...
Leverett and Kirkland both scored double victories in House basketball games yesterday. The Bunny A team defeated Eliot, 38 to 22, while the B squad edged out the Elephants, 22 to 18. In an A league game Kirkland overran Lowell, 51 to 37, while its B team was defeating the Bellboys...
...were not through, by any means. At 1a.m. one night last week, they attacked Triangle with two or three battalions in line. This first sally was beaten off, but the ROKs on the crest were weakened. An hour later the enemy reformed and came on again; this time he overran the summit. Of three ROK companies which disappeared under the Red tide, 175 survivors were rounded up later. The Chinese were finally stopped at the southern foot of Triangle's steep slopes. If they advanced any farther, they would imperil the U.N. supply bases and communication lines around Kumhwa...
...Amsterdam Stock Exchange, bustling center of Dutch financial life, stopped all trading last week. Like so many of Europe's troubles, the reason for the stoppage dated back to the war. When the Germans overran The Netherlands in 1940, they helped themselves to a giant Dutch treat: all Jewish-owned stocks, bonds and other assets were expropriated and deposited with a Nazi-controlled company which took the name of Amsterdam's famed Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. For a while, the Nazis' Lippmann, Rosenthal preserved the myth of Jewish ownership, credited the original security owners with accrued dividends...
When the Nazis overran the Low Countries in 1940, they barred Dutch Physician Elie A. Cohen from practice. Cohen and his family tried to escape to Sweden, but the Gestapo caught them and sent them to Auschwitz. There, the SS gassed Cohen's wife and four-year-old son, his parents, his only sister, and about 50 other relatives. Much of the time Cohen had to do the same manual labor as other prisoners; only part of his three years, in a series of concentration camps was spent working as a doctor. Liberated in May, 1945, he weighed...