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Fire from the Heights. He enlisted in the Army again. Last summer he was sent to Korea, and was assigned to a heavy-mortar outfit, Company L of the 38th Infantry Regiment. One bitter cold day last January, some men of Company L were trapped in the open near Ponggil-li by heavy machine-gun and mortar fire from a hill above. Corporal Ronald Rosser did not hesitate. With only his carbine and one white phosphorous grenade, he sprinted 100 yards up the steep slope and leaped astride an enemy trench on the heights...
...message to 76's tough leader, North Korean Colonel Lee Hak Koo: "This is a legal order for you to prepare the prisoners of war in Compound 76 to move out into the newly constructed compounds . . ." Lee ignored the order. When the paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regiment moved in, the prisoners fought tooth & nail. In the first hours of battle 32 Communists were killed and at least 85 wounded; one of the paratroopers was killed and 13 wounded. But eventually a heavy tear-gas barrage brought the Communists out of their trenches, choking and weeping, with their hands...
Justice William O. Douglas tried to soften the blow by noting that "today a kindly President uses the seizure power," but another sort of President could misuse it "to regiment labor as oppressively as industry thinks it has been regimented by this seizure...
...Malaya, where 98% of the Communist strength is among the Chinese, Manap Jepun was a key man. He was one of the few Malayans who would desert Allah for Marx. So he was placed in command of the loth (Malay) Regiment, a unit about 150 men strong and the only all-Malayan regiment on the Communist side...
Denmark's King Frederik, who is also hereditary Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal East Kent regiment, arrived in England to dedicate a new window which his regiment gave for the Warriors' Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral. Before the ceremony, photographers snapped a rare meeting of King and prelate in hearty handshake as Frederik was greeted by the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, the party-lining "Red Dean" of the cathedral...