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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advancing Reds had closed the floodgates of the huge Hwachon Dam just above the 38th parallel. Result: the level of the Pukhan River, which is fed by the Hwachon Reservoir, fell sharply, depriving retreating U.N. troops of a valuable defensive barrier. Last week the U.S. Army asked the U.S. Navy to do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AIR WAR: The Navy in the Hills | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...very similar to that of Harvard, a system on concentration and distribution of courses having been in effect approximately the same length of time as that of the Cambridge institution. Also the immediate post World War II period saw the rise of certain inter-departmental basic courses, roughly parallel to Harvard's General Education series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley: the Girl Behind the Teapot | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

...Korean war surprised Nehru into another paradoxical position. At first he approved, and applauded, U.N. (and U.S.) actions. Said he: "These young men of the U.S. who are fighting and dying in Korea certainly do not represent dollar imperialism." But once MacArthur's men were across the 38th parallel, Nehru became more & more neutral against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEAS: Pandit's Mind | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Britain's Ralph Vaughan Williams is a composer who bides his time. Primarily famed as a symphonist (he has composed six symphonies), he waited until he was 51 to write his first ballet score (Old King Cole); at 69 he composed his first film score (49th Parallel). Last week, at 78, the famed old doyen of English composers finally made his first bow in Covent Garden with an opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Doyen Sums Up | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...Secretary of State, editorialized the Post, is "more parallel than antithetical to MacArthur" and "much less candid and forthright." Then Editor Elliston told his readers some things he had managed to conceal from them for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Light That Failed | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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