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...Korean front near Chorwon. The focus of attack was a knob called Spud Hill, in the T-Bone mountain area. Air and artillery were to plaster the enemy position, then tank-supported infantry was to move up, grab prisoners, finish destroying Communist bunkers and tunnels. Code word: Operation Smack...
...reject the theory that housewives are stupid because they listen to daytime shows," says Garry Moore. He is defending not only housewives but himself, for his Garry Moore Show (weekdays, 1:30 p.m., CBS-TV) comes smack in the middle of the day. It is also, he insists, "non-typical." Unlike such weepy radio competitors as Young Dr. Malone and The Guiding Light, Moore tries to run his program on the lines of a comic strip: "No one show of mine fractures you all by itself. But, in continuity, they go over&151;just like Li'l Abner...
...spies and saboteurs' who are widely imagined to be imperiling the security of the U.S." Added the chorus of criticisms of the U.S. are such anti-American weeklies as the New Statesman & Nation, which recently said of the indictment of Owen Lattimore for perjury: "Such blanket denunciations smack more of Prague than of the traditions of Western justice...
...both suggestions, gracing them with what the Asians fear most from America, is use of Chiang Kai-shek's troops. Employing a discredited army and a has-been who is considered reactionary and dictatorial throughout the Far East, would be the worst blunder conceivable. Not only would it smack of overweaning meddling, but it would burden the United States with the worst sort of albatross, and demolish this country as a force in Asia for years to come...
...every close fight, when they hear the bell ring for the final round, they come out slugging, and a few punches may smack below the belt. As much as you know this, and realize what's at stake for the men, you've got to call the fouls, if you're the referee...