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...armored columns raided across the parallel on the western flank of the peninsula. One rolled up the main road north of Uijongbu toward Kumhwa; air spotters, directing artillery, helped it get back again before a Red ambush could be sprung. The second column, thrusting north of the Chongpyong Reservoir, ran into an enemy ambush of grenade and machine-gun fire, but managed to fight its way out to U.N. lines below the parallel. Along the central front above Chunchon, the enemy counterattacked; the main blow in his anticipated offensive seemed likely to come in this sensitive sector...
Television, desperate for enough material to fill its broadcast hours, has finally discovered an almost inexhaustible source. The verbal reservoir: 69-year-old Edgar A. Guest, "poet of the plain people," who has been dashing off at least one verse a day for almost 50 years, mainly for his daily stint in the Detroit Free Press. In 1930, when he stopped counting them, Guest had already mass-produced more than 10,000 cheerful rhymes...
...Much, Too Soon. In Novato, Calif., an official announced that use of water would have to be restricted again next summer, because heavy rains had interrupted work on the city's new reservoir...
Five years later, the vast reservoir of nope and trust created in Iran is running dry. The danger from Russia today is greater than in 1946. The present Iran picture is one of all-round distrust between Americans, British and Iranians. Desperately and suicidally, the Iranians are back in an old game that they cannot win-trying to play the Russians off against the Western powers. Divided and discouraged, Iran lies defenseless-and the U.S. is doing nothing to protect...
...summer). The road from there to Taejon, scene of last summer's most tragic battle, was clogged with refugees. And 50 miles to the east, a flanking threat was developing at Wonju, an important rail and road center which lies in rugged uplands like those around the Changjin reservoir in northeast Korea...