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...Shape. In Washington the new intelligence was studied carefully by Secretary of State Dulles, Assistant Secretary Walter Robertson, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Anderson, J.C.S. Chief Arthur W. Radford and Pacific Commander Felix Stump. They concluded that the Communists might soon be able to carry out their threat of an attack on Formosa. In the eyes of the U.S. strategists, this gave a new shape to the Formosa crisis: Quemoy and the Matsus became incidental; Formosa itself and the U.S. Seventh Fleet were in the eye of danger...
...morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember . . . that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were...
...sculptors, Pericle Fazzini (TIME, May 7, 1951). But when the packing case arrived from Rome last year and the school officials got their first look, they gasped in pained surprise. Inside was a 6½ft. expressionistic bronze statue of a nude, egg-headed boy, braced against a gnarled stump to rescue a fawn from drowning...
...Everything seems to be in fine shape," said Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Felix Stump. "When the bell rings, we will be ready to go." This week the bell rang for the Chinese Nationalists to evacuate the Tachen Islands with the help of the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
Inside the Taejon clinic one morning last week the homemade kerosene stove was a center of warmth and hope for a little huddJe of maimed men. One sat with his stump tucked under him, an armless boy held his Bible in two hooks. Torrey slipped an elastic from around his Bible, parked it on his arm-hook, and then began reading the 36th Psalm...