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...blundering Truman who last week nominated General Mark Clark as the first full-fledged U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican? Or was this the act of the third Harry Truman, the one who on rare occasions disregards petty politics and shows glimmerings of the statesmanship that his office has thrust upon him? Whichever way it was interpreted, Truman had kicked up the hot ashes of a long-smoldering controversy...
...early morning, armored combat teams of the crack American Constabulary thrust westward in a surprise attack. Paratroops dropped near Frankenthal to secure a Rhine bridgehead. Partisan guerrillas closed in near Kaiserlautern and "destroyed" a supply dump. Threatened on their flanks, the 1st and 4th Divisions reeled back until units of the 2nd Armored Division, in reserve, moved up to hit the aggressors and cover the retreat...
...centra! front, armored columns from three U.S. divisions thrust north in the largest armored raid in many months. The raid was christened "Operation Cleaver," but ebullient correspondents were cautioned not to call it an "offensive." Two of the columns got into savage fighting, and one was reported "engaged on all sides" (i.e., surrounded). The Reds, said a U.N. officer, seemed to have antitank guns "in every nook and corner of the valley." The raiders succeeded in wrecking "several" of the enemy's T-34 tanks...
...ordeal began in the spring of 1950: five cases cropped up, caught hold, and multiplied with raging speed. By winter, 1,459 schoolchildren had infected scalps, and the Soo was in the midst of the worst ringworm epidemic ever recorded north of the Rio Grande. Itching heads were thrust under ultraviolet lamps to make the disease show up, shaved, scrubbed, treated with salves, and encased in sterile white cotton caps to prevent spreading. Doctors tried new drugs by the score. Special X-ray clinics were set up, and skilled radiologists were brought in to treat the itchy youngsters...
...counsel with no one. Swarthy, cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko led his 39-man crew off their two private Pullmans at the Oakland mole. They had come directly across the U.S. from Manhattan, without the customary protocol swing through Washington. Gromyko was stopped momentarily when a grey-haired little woman thrust a bunch of red roses into his arms. Then he retreated, in a private limousine flying the hammer & sickle, to the 39-room mansion erected by California's railroad-building Crocker family in suburban Hillsborough (which he had rented at a reported $250 a day in preference...