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...stalking the rear elements of a North Korean motorized regiment which had been retreating north when cut off by "Operation Tomahawk." The Red guns were still going throughout the next morning. Helicopters threshed in to dusty landings in the D.Z. and whirred up again with wounded men. In the sunlight, the red, blue, green, yellow and white cargo chutes and mottled green personnel chutes, dropped the day before, gleamed vividly against dun-colored fields. A giant white chute that had floated an artillery piece to the ground rustled silkily in a tree...
...little opposition at first. Master Sergeant Arthur Tucker's Patton hit a mine about eight miles north of Seoul while reconnoitering a bypass around a blown bridge. Its left tread peeled off like a snake's discarded skin; the men inside crawled out to shiver in the sunlight. Then an armored scout car, with a British bridge-building detachment, hit another mine, bounced up & turned over. Two groggy but otherwise uninjured Britons climbed out. A South Korean jeep coming over to inspect the double mishap struck a third mine, was blown into a tangle of steel, rubber...
Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, India's ambassador to both the U.S. and Mexico, was working on the last few pages of her autobiography, Sunlight and Shadow, signed another contract for a book on India's problems, and hoped for time some day to do one on "the history of diplomacy...
Charles D. Wetmore'89, builder of Claverly, soon had rivals who tried to put it into the shade. A freshman History instructor completed plans to build a new hall--Randolph--across the street, thus shutting the sunlight from Claverly's lower floors. In vain, Wetmore tried to persuade city authorities to increase the 20-feet wide Linden Street...
...dock a Sūreté officer pointed to a large crate, ordered dockers to break it open. Inside the crate was an old grey Ford automobile. Inside the Ford, smiling and blinking away tears caused by the sunlight, sat an emaciated man with a long beard...