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...Hurt!" At 2 a.m., two Chinese companies began attacking U.N. positions on the muddy, jagged slopes of "Little Gibraltar." Mortars and artillery pounded U.N. lines. At 4 a.m., Stanley and twelve other men from the 9th Infantry Regiment were sent crawling up Little Gibraltar, looking for wounded. Halfway up, Stanley and a South Korean soldier ran into two Chinese coming towards them with their hands up, as if to surrender. Suddenly, from a closed fist, one of the Chinese flipped a hand grenade. The grenade killed the Korean. Stanley hoisted his 20-lb. rifle to his shoulder and killed both...
...more recent theory has it that the gorges were cut by "turbidity currents," i.e., rivers of mud on the bottom. When a slope of loose material is disturbed-by an earthquake, for example-mud and sand get mixed with the water. Since the turbid mixture is heavier than clear water, it flows down the slope, eroding a valley just as a river does on land. This was known to happen in lakes, and many oceanographers believed that the same thing happened deep under the ocean...
Racing Mud. The trouble did not stop there. The stirred-up mud and sand got mixed with water, and the heavy turbid fluid raced down the continental slope like an enormous river more than 100 miles wide, cutting cable after cable. By plotting the time and place of each cable break, the oceanographers could estimate closely how fast the turbidity current flowed. On the sloping continental rise (at the foot of the continental slope), it raced at 50 knots (57.6 m.p.h.). More than 13 hours later, when it cut the last cable 300 miles to the southeast...
...their shirt sleeves, wear goggles, and usually flash a toothy grin and yodel something in Austrian at you-they are the ones that know how. Or else they're earnest. You can tell this type because they refuse a cocktail at noon and always rush off to the slopes like Greta Garbo-"I vant to be alone!" They do parallel christies all the way down the slope, stand at the bottom and examine the trail they left, and then climb on the tow again with a determined expression, swearing softly...
...evening last week a small force of ROKs turned their parkas inside out, so that the white linings would help to camouflage them against the snow. Then they crept down the slope, flanked by diversionary groups on the left and right. The raiders surprised and killed three tunnel guards, then waited while the enemy packed the 8-by-5-ft. passage with troops. ROK engineers planted 200 Ibs. of TNT at the tunnel's mouth; five minutes later, the explosive went up with a shattering roar. Forty-four Reds perished; the tunnel was ruined...