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Sealing Off. U.N. commanders, who had expected to pay heavily for Pyongyang, found the city dotted with carefully prepared 76-mm. gun positions and innumerable sandbag barricades. But many of the positions had been left unmanned, and most of the Red soldiers who had been assigned to defend Pyongyang quickly threw up their hands. On the roads running north from Pyongyang, U.N. pilots spotted some 20,000 North Korean troops, some fleeing afoot, some by truck or by oxcart...
...sandbag used as a counterweight accidentally crashed at the feet of Ethel Waters, star of The Member of the Wedding, as she took her curtain call in a Broadway theater. Unfazed, even though the weight had missed her by inches, she quoted a line from the hymn she sings in the play: "His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches...
...brought swift and angry demands from Missouri Valley citizens for relief action by the penny-wise U. S. Congress which had cut river control funds early in 1947. So once again, Congress found itself faced with the perplexing problem of what to do with the Missouri River. The piecemeal sandbag method evidently wasn't working. But although President Truman called for an ambitious program of flood control, Congress didn't feel inclined to do much about...
...Security Council Membership Committee was considering applications for admission by Eire, Portugal, Trans-Jordan, Italy and Austria (Russia was prepared to blackball all of them) and Albania, Outer Mongolia, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria (which would run into U.S. opposition). The only prospective member nobody wanted to sandbag was Yemen...
...seven U.S. soldier-executioners it was a grim assignment. First they went to a makeshift gallows, built in an elevator shaft, and practiced with a sandbag dummy. Then, shortly after midnight one night, they carried out the verdict...