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If the Reds were ready to quit in Korea, the West could be sure it was only because they wanted to use their energies elsewhere. With their armies no longer bleeding, the Chinese Communists could now push harder at Indo-China and the rest of South Asia. Relieved of the...
The bearded one, no mean storyteller, gave a detailed account to Poland's Communist authorities, generally no mean storytellers themselves: during the German retreat in 1945, he and five other German soldiers had been looting the store, when German demolition bombs destroyed its entrance and entombed them. Two of...
All crews get up at 6:15 a.m., guip a glass of orange juice, and take a workout south toward New London which piles up more than eight miles. At 8:45 a.m., they breakfast. Fifteen minutes later, those that have exams write them under the eye of a proctor...
Gullies Full of Dead. In one sector, before launching their infantry, the Reds laid down their heaviest artillery barrage of the war. U.S. guns (including 155-mm. Long Toms, which can fire 15 miles) roared a reply, hurling 25,000 fragmentation and white phosphorus shells on one division front alone...
'At Canada's Chalk River atomic center, Pontecorvo helped design the heavy-water pile, still the "reactor of most advanced design and performance." He knew the secrets of the plutonium-producing piles at Hanford. After the war, he was a senior officer at Harwell, the British atomic research...