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...first day's assault on Triangle went badly, and the 7th's doughfeet were pinned on the steep, sandy slopes. Eventually they drove the Chinese off the top and dug in behind barbed wire and sandbags, hauled up on a hastily built cable railway. Thus protected, their machine-gunners mowed down wave after wave of counterattacking Chinese. Their mortar-men put smoke shells on Papa-san to blind the enemy spotters there, and U.N. planes blasted the Chinese assembly points. This week the Reds drove the Americans and ROKs back in a desperate night counterattack; but when...
...took Kraft and a small army of prospector friends five years to prove them wrong. Roaming the U.S., they found the bright greens in tiny pockets from Alaska to Wyoming, discovered the rare rose jade in a single small boulder in California, the even rarer white jade in a steep Arizona canyon. Kraft studied great windows of the past, decided that a simple cross would be the best design, then began cutting the hard stone to a thickness of three millimeters (about as thick as a half-dollar). He had to call in professional lapidaries to help with the cutting...
...General Services Administration announced last week that its $42 million nickel processing plant at Nicaro in eastern Cuba is going full blast again. Built by the U.S. Government during World War II and shut down after the peace because of its steep operating costs, the plant was reopened last year to help meet the urgent need for heat-resistant nickel alloys for jet engines. According to GSAdministrator Jess Larson, Nicaro's furnaces are "already operating 8% higher in efficiency" than last time, and their output is "rapidly rising towards the projected goal of 30 million pounds a year." This...
...easy. As Dr. Davis neared the Peruvian coast, he recalled an old tale of the islands. A Polynesian expedition under Chief Maui Marumamao, says the legend, sailed east from Easter Island and came to "a land with ridges like a comb." The Peruvian coast is like that, with steep, barren ridges running down to the sea. There the Polynesians built a temple, but they did not stay long because they did not find what they needed: fertile land near the sea. This description also matches Peru, for most of the Peruvian coast is bone-dry desert...
...cold day last January, some men of Company L were trapped in the open near Ponggil-li by heavy machine-gun and mortar fire from a hill above. Corporal Ronald Rosser did not hesitate. With only his carbine and one white phosphorous grenade, he sprinted 100 yards up the steep slope and leaped astride an enemy trench on the heights...