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Pyongtaek, they retreated southward. Before the week was out, Chonan fell. Chonan was only 22 miles north of the Kum River (see above...
Across the River. There was no street fighting for Seoul. With the government and the U.S. military advisers evacuated by air from Kimpo, the city's defenders decided that only the Han River would stop the invaders' southward march, and they prematurely demolished the Han bridges (see below...
...said: 'That bastard Stalin's started it!' " Men & women, carrying children, ran south, away from the blast. Cars loaded with frightened people sped out of town. Mayor Leonard rushed to the city hall, piled into a sound truck and rode about town bellowing reassurance. Finally, the southward rush slowed and stopped...
...Chinese civil war was settling before the bemused eyes of the State Department, the U.S. paid scant attention to the Indo-Chinese struggle. It seemed largely a local affair between the French and their subjects. Since the dust has settled in China, Asia's Communism is thrusting southward. Indo-China stands first on the path to Singapore, Manila and the Indies...
Less than half an hour after the start a Guatemalan, burning up the road in a new Lincoln, missed a turn and was hauled out, fatally injured, from the smoking wreck. The Cadillac Coche México, hightailing southward from Ciudad Juarez at better than 100 m.p.h., screeched off a hairpin curve, rolled over three times into a rocky ditch. The drivers, unhurt, crawled back, started the engine, and somehow finished the day's lap-in 69th place. In his 1950 Cadillac, ex-Pilot William Sterling of El Paso paced the pack over the first 228 miles...