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...east face of the "Iron Triangle" (Kumhwa-Chorwon-Pyongyang). Two miles east of Triangle is Sniper Ridge. Beyond them to the north towers a much higher peak called Papa-san; the three together form a strong Communist bastion on the rugged central front. Last week the 31st Regiment of the U.S. 7th Division attacked Triangle, while South Koreans of the 2nd ROK Division stormed Sniper...
...back to William Jennings Bryan. Democratic Baltimore, which had just barely mustered a welcome for Adlai Stevenson earlier in the week, turned out 100,000 strong to line the streets for Eisenhower. After dinner at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Ike drove through more crowds to the packed Fifth Regiment Armory to deliver a speech on armed forces policy. Considering how much Eisenhower knows about this subject, the speech was disappointing to his friends-although the Baltimore audience cheered it uncritically...
...Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory, Illinois' governor strained the enthusiasm of a strongly Democratic crowd with a serious discussion of inflation. Suggesting that tight price and wage controls might be necessary, he also made a point of governmental economy. Said he proudly: "I've vetoed more appropriations than any governor in the history of Illinois, and I kind of like the exercise...
...enemy on our eastern frontier"), but because he knew what the war would prove: that the Egyptian army was not ready for a desert campaign. "But the army was never consulted," he says with a bitter shrug. Naguib, a brigadier, took charge of a machine-gun and infantry regiment in the Sinai desert. He was the only senior officer his troops had ever known who literally led his men. When an enemy fusillade struck down most of his company, including a captain standing at his shoulder, the only harm that came to Naguib was a bullet that smashed his pipe...
...Korea, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., 40, son of the late General "Vinegar Joe," took over as commander of the 23rd Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division. In Korea, Captain Clifford D. Jolley, 31, of Salt Lake City, shot down his fifth enemy plane to become America's 18th jet ace of the war. In Tokyo, the Army announced that Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner, who restored order to the rebellious prisoner-of-war camp on Koje Islands, had been promoted to the rank of major general. In Washington, the Marine Corps announced that Colonel Katherine A. Towle...