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...didn't want sympathy. He often told his parents: "You count what you've got left, not what you've lost." It was a good thing that Ed Reeves felt that way. In the bitter fighting around the Changjin Reservoir last winter, he had been hit by a Communist mortar burst, had lain helpless in the sub-zero weather for nine days. Army surgeons had to take off both of his frozen feet and the fingers on both hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Right Answer | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...Making him one of three quadruple amputees of the Korean war. The other two (also wounded in the Changjin Reservoir area and victims of the bitter cold): Army Pfc. Robert L. Smith, 20, Middleburg, Pa. (TIME, Jan. 8); Marine Sergeant Werner Reininger, 22, San Antonio, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Right Answer | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...Kaesong cease-fire talks began, U.N. and Communist armies in Korea have been sparring firmly, but not forcefully. Late last week the U.N. uncorked a brisk punch. Moving out under a battering artillery bombardment, U.N. troops assaulted Communist positions in the rain-lashed mountains north of the Hwachon Reservoir and east of the "Iron Triangle." The Reds fell back in some places, fought hand-to-hand in others despite U.N. air, artillery, tank and naval gunfire. U.N. officers described it as a limited offensive "to straighten our lines and to prevent the enemy from observing the positions we currently hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Brisk Punch | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Duclus brought his first Gambusia from Bakersfield to Los Angeles six years ago, has bred them ever since in reservoir debris-basins, ponds and pools scattered throughout the city. Now anyone with mosquito trouble can pick up a free supply of the fast-multiplying little fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mosquito Killer | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...energy to raise part of its water over its own high banks, is the key engineering trick that frees irrigation from gravity. Its efficiency is about 80%, i.e., one cubic foot of water falling 100 feet generates enough electricity to pump another cubic foot 80 feet above the reservoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Endless Frontier | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

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