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...Directions: Proceed by normal route to Wellesley Hills (11 miles), take Route 9 to Westbore (21 miles), switching southward on Route 20 to Sturbridge (26 miles), switch south again on route 15 to East Hartford (30 miles). Take the last turnoff before the Charter Oak toll bridge on Main Street, East Hartford. Turn left on Connecticut Boulevard (Route 44). Stay on Route 44 to Canton (16 miles). Switch to Route 4 through Torrington to Sharon (42 miles). Take Route 343 to Amenia, New York (5 miles), then 44 again to Raymond Avenue stoplight (24 miles). Turn left on Raymond...
Next day the convoy crawled southward, the infantry fighting off the Communists from the rear. That night, the guns fired in a circle. The infantry tried to take a hill to clear a path southward, but the Reds drove them back...
...neither supplies nor training could raise the morale of a discouraged army. "Bugout fever"-a habitual desire to break contact and head southward-was epidemic. The men, retreating over ground they had once captured, thought moodily of another Pusan perimeter...
...bourgeoisie; his family ran a small textile mill in Hupei province. Lin got his early military training at Whampoa Academy, the Nationalist school set up with Soviet Russian help in the 1920s. One of his instructors was Chiang Kaishek. Between 1947 and 1949, Lin led his new Manchurian army southward to crush Chiang's forces at Mukden, Peking and Tientsin...
Beaver & Velvet. To anyone who had watched the death of Nanking in 1949, the death of Seoul was a familiar tale: the empty streets, the one or two deserted trolleys that rocked forlornly along the main stem, the last tired oxen plodding patiently southward, were all sharply reminiscent of similar scenes in China. At week's end the wealthy, who could afford to wait until the last minute, were packing up to get out. In front of upper-class Korean houses and stores, merchants in beaver-collared coats supervised the loading of their more valued belongings. A beautiful girl...