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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the Reds officially rejected General Ridgway's proposal that the site of the cease-fire talks be changed. They branded it an attempt to "run away from your side's responsibility for violation of the Kaesong neutrality agreement...
...signing of the Japanese treaty (see INTERNATIONAL). The Reds had obviously hoped to use Korea as an instrument of blackmail at San Francisco. General Ridgway seized an obvious last chance to get the truce talks on the track again and formally suggested to the Reds that the conference site be moved to another location. In a message to Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai, Ridgway proposed that choice of a new site be discussed by liaison officers, and added: "Further use of . . . Kaesong will inevitably result in additional interruptions . . . and further delays...
Across the street, where Epstein's Drugstore now stands, was an inn that housed President George Washington during his visit to Joan Hancock, Harvard 1754. Later Daniel Webster opened his law office in another building on the same site...
With its customary air of guarded caution, the Atomic Energy Commission last week announced that it would begin a new series of tests "in the near future" at the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range in Nevada. The site is now on "permanent" status, said the AEC, and will be used for both atomic and ordinary explosives. Only a few official observers will see the first of the new tests, but newsmen and civil-defense leaders may be invited to a "subsequent test operation...
Bill & Al should have no trouble finding customers for their houses. By the time U.S. Steel and Kaiser have their plants running, 14,500 workers alone will have moved into the area, whose total population is expected to grow by at least 32,000. If the Bucks County site is declared a critical defense area, as Bill Levitt is confident it will be, he will get priorities on scarce materials, and credit restrictions will be lifted since the houses will sell for less than $12,000. The Levitts have bought 2,500 acres (average price: $1,100 an acre). They...