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...Arab war in 1948 left the Israelis with only a tantalizing toe hold in Jerusalem. The Arab Legion held the Old City. Since then, the U.N. in three separate resolutions has urged that the entire city be internationalized. But as the Israelis learned during their war for independence, one fait accompli is worth a dozen U.N. resolutions. They set out to make the toe hold a foothold...
...perhaps, from the fact that he was not a Spock baby himself. His father was a successful New Haven lawyer who resembled and respected Calvin Coolidge, and his mother was a forceful New England woman with strict views. She prides herself on having brought up her six children with toe-the-line discipline. "If all parents today were as strict as I was, we wouldn't have so many brats and little vandals," she says. Ben was seldom allowed to do what most other boys did, and he suffered accordingly. He and his younger sister Hitty were sent...
...Toe the Line. When Lieut. General Nam II and his partners in crime came to the truce table at Kaesong last July 10, the Communist armies were in bad shape. From their last two spring offensives, they had reeled back with losses of probably 250,000 men. Epidemics of some sort were raging in North Korea, and presumably further crippling the Red fighting forces. Moreover, the Eighth Army, which Matt Ridgway had turned into a first-class fighting machine, had proved by its "meat-grinder" counteroffensives that it could grind some 90 miles farther north to the line where...
...intend to make peace, but only to win a breathing spell. The U.N. made it plain to the Communists that the fighting would go on until the armistice was signed and sealed. The U.N. morale was high; the prevalent attitude was that the enemy would have to toe the line if he wanted a truce. The State Department thought the truce talks might last as long as four weeks. In the year that has followed, the Washington masterminds have allowed the high morale, the healthy pugnacity, to be frittered away. That year is a profitable lesson in the education...
...since D-day had Europe seen such an American invasion. From Land's End to the toe of Italy, tourists established beachheads at bars and hotels, and wave after wave of reinforcements came ashore...