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...lieutenant general named Kim Mu Chong, onetime commanding general of the Chinese Communists' famed Eighth Route Army. Kim's men met "Mike" Michaelis' men at a road junction 15 miles northwest of Taegu. General Kim looked the situation over and decided to hit young Colonel Michaelis smack in the nose...
...Smack into Ambush. After the first evacuation of Chonan, U.S. commanders discovered that the Communists had failed to follow and that some 15 miles of unoccupied road lay behind. Angry and ruffled, they turned one platoon around and sent it north. The platoon-led by jeeps instead of tanks-ran smack into an enemy ambush...
Then, last April, Alberta's great oil bonanza dumped a derrick on Bill Mulligan's 320 acres smack behind the tumbledown Mulligan shack. Unlike 99% of Alberta's farmers, Paw Mulligan held mineral rights to his land.* By last week his windfall had reached $40,000 or $50,000-he hadn't bothered to figure it out exactly. Besides, most of it had already been spent on a whale of a good time...
...family affair and people took their denominational differences more seriously. "[Today] we have the strange spectacle . . . of people refusing to worship together, while not knowing just why . . . [In the old days] the tobacco chewers always did their spitting at sermon climaxes, the juice hitting the floor with a resounding smack as a sort of substitute for a cheer...
Once it is established that we're going to have the Club--right smack on Mt. Auburn Street--there is a basis on which its construction can be justified. Just after the present Varsity Club was built (by Burr, in 1912), Harvard experienced an upsurge in intercollegiate athletics, and the new Club is being built with this in mind. It will serve to focalize interest in College athletics, as a place where alumni can meet players, where visiting teams collegiate and scholastic--can be entertained. It will increase interest in Harvard sports to a point where further-donations, enough...