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...Chinese) troops from Korea. The U.N. negotiators refused, and the matter was left off the agenda for possible solution at a post-truce political conference. The second defeat of the Communists was the breaking down of their demand for a truce line on the 38th parallel. The third-and greatest-was their failure to win repatriation of prisoners unwilling to return to Communist control. The U.N., in turn, failed to 1) get a trustworthy inspection system (i.e., one that would tie up the Reds as tightly as the allies originally hoped); 2) win immediate liberation of anti-Communist prisoners...
...Ruttman popped back in front. On lap No. 83, Vukovich took the lead again and Ruttman's car, a lap later, lost time fighting a fire under the hood during a refueling stop. At the halfway mark (100 laps) Vukovich was still in the lead. Ruttman was then third-and gaining...
...shining moment it looked as though he might come through. After lagging for half a mile behind horses that two years ago would only have been warmups for him, he began to cut his way through the pack. It was too late; the best he could do was third-and prize money...
...army commanded by General Vatutin, now 59 miles inside old Poland, the objective was the Lwow-Konigsberg supply artery (see map, p. 23). Since last fall this tough tankman had severed two major north-south railroads remaining to the Germans in that area. At Lwow, he would cut the third-and last...
...older, he graduated from a first-rate light heavyweight into a second-rate heavyweight. A few surprising victories over highly touted prospects like "Tuffy"' Griffiths and John Henry Lewis did him more harm than good by making managers of other fighters wary of him, limiting his adversaries to third-and fourth-raters. Several minor victories in a row brought Braddock's name up for discussion this winter in the heavyweight elimination tournament currently being conducted by Madison Square Garden Corp. He received the unexpected honor of being judged worthy of testing the qualifications of a promising young Jewish...