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...following day the tractor was put to work, and last week it completed its first task, scooping out a small reservoir. Then it turned to roadmaking. Plodding away from the fiesta, a Friend of Sanare had said, "Next year, when we celebrate the machine's birthday, possibly we shall not have to walk." An old woman added. "If God wills it, and the Virgin." And then someone struck a chord on a guitar, and they walked off singing...
...argues that his chief concern is to avoid waste, not keep up prices. Once oil is brought up, some of it is lost through evaporation, handling and leakage. So says Thompson: "The best place to store oil until you need it is in God's reservoir...
...well settle the basic problem of continuity. First, under the capable direction of Robert Chapman and Mrs. Mary Howe, the lab could furnish a constant reservoir of trained actors and actresses from which undergraduate productions could draw. More important, however, is its great promise as a successor to the 47 Workshop, in providing a focus and inspiration to the now chaotic dramatic scene...
...links between U.S. prisoners of war and their families back home were pictures taken in Korean prison camps by Associated Press's Pulitzer Prizewinning* Photographer Frank Noel. It was a strange sort of beat. Noel, himself a P.W. since his 1950 capture while covering the Marines at Chosin Reservoir, used a Speed Graphic and films forwarded by A.P. through the Panmunjom camp. Censored by both Chinese and U.S. military, his pictures of beaming C.I.s seemed at once good propaganda to the Communists and good news for the U.S. home front. Last week, when Frank Noel reached Panmunjom...
Casualties were severe on both sides. When the weather cleared and U.N. planes began raking the flow of Chinese reinforcements, the attacks petered out. The Hwachon dam and reservoir (supplying most of Seoul's electric power) and the U.N. communications hubs at Chorwon and Kumhwa, which had seemed threatened under the first impetus of enemy attack, were safe. A new U.N. first line was established at the base of the Kumsong salient. But the salient itself was gone. At the cost of thousands of lives, the proposed armistice line was a little straighter-in the Communists' favor...