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...polio victims. But more than $13 million has been parceled out to research groups to track down and stamp out an elusive killer. So far the dimes have done neither, but they have moved closer & closer by helping to uncover a mass of evidence that will sooner or later trap the killer...
Killer's Face. It is an expensive busi ness. In order to trap a killer, researchers must first identify it. In one year the March of Dimes paid out close to $2,000,000 for virus research alone. This money helped to prove that polio is a disease caused by a whole family of viruses, three of which can be identified in the test tube...
With the Hungnam evacuation completed, tacticians looked back on the battle -the U.S. breakout from the Changjin trap, the fighting retreat to the sea, and the successful evacuation-to assess the showing made by the Chinese, who had looked so overwhelming in the first flush of their massive offensive. The assessment was that in northeast Korea, Mao's men had made a very poor showing indeed...
...first battle, over enemy-held territory ten miles south of the Korea-Manchuria border, a formation of four F-86s, led by Lieut. Colonel Bruce Hinton of Stockton, Calif., throttled down to their slowest cruising speed to disguise their true speed from the enemy. The trap worked: four MIGs came languidly up to investigate. Covered by his wingman, Colonel Hinton fired three bursts into a MIG and saw it go spinning down in flames. "I know I got that one all right. I must have killed the pilot," he said, "he made no attempt to get out-didn...
...long, hard task." It would be hard but, as Ike well knew, the Russians would decide whether it would be long. As his right hand and chief of staff, he chose an old crony of war plans and the bridge table, Lieut. General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, 51, a steel-trap military mind and the U.S. Army's General Staff Deputy for Plans & Operations...