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Reports from Burma last week said that several thousands of Li's men recently thrust into lofty Yunnan (see map), at one point stabbing 50 miles deep. Communist regulars counterattacked sharply, last week reportedly engaged the Nationalists in skirmishes on a 6,000-foot-high plateau 200 miles southwest of Kunming, capital of Yunnan. In retaliation for the ready welcome which some of Yunnan's peasants gave the Nationalists, Communist executioners in the province shot 1,500 "traitors...
...Administration raised horrified eyes to heaven, but the vote was only another chapter in the long story of its own fumbling with the economy. A year ago inflation was only a distant threat; its pressures had not actually set in. Then Congress whooped through a tough control bill and thrust it on the Administration. While a panicky public went on a buying spree and bid prices up, Mr. Truman refused to use his powers. By the time he got around to it, high prices, largely induced by fear-buying, were almost out of his reach...
...pictures testify to Gromaire's neck-cricking wonder at the upward thrust of the skyscrapers. One of the best catches the silhouette of an old landmark, Trinity Church, against the spectacular escarpments of Wall Street. Says Gromaire: "Now I am completely exhausted, like a mother after childbirth. If you asked me to paint just one more picture about America, I couldn't do it." As for living and working in Manhattan, Gromaire shakes his head. "New York is astonishing, but so are the Himalayas. I wouldn't like to spend the rest of my life...
...take off and climb with its own power. A turbojet engine was crammed into the narrow needle-nosed fuselage. There were rocket motors too, for speed runs, but they gulped fuel at a ton a minute from tanks cut down to accommodate the powerful turbojet and its accessories. Rocket thrust was never available to the pilot long enough for the plane to approach top speed...
Since the North Koreans' Russian-made T-34 tank disappeared from the battle, allied armor in Korea has had nothing much to contend with except mortar and small-arms fire. U.N. armored columns thrust boldly into enemy territory, without the infantry screens which-according to the book-are needed to put hostile antitank gunners out of action. Early this month, a U.S. tank force probing toward the Reds' "iron triangle" suddenly ran into killing antitank fire. Ordnance officers quickly identified the source: Russia's highly effective 57-mm. antitank...