Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong liberals, a conservative, and a staunch supporter of "The Vital Center" will open the fifth year of Law School Forums tonight with a discussion of "The Future of the American Liberal...
Shattuck is a partner in the firm of Hausermann, Davison, and Shattuck in Boston, and the author of several books on estate and trust administration Schlesinger published "The Vital Center" last year...
...barreled on through, without opposition, to the crucial supply port of Pusan. If they had done that, Douglas MacArthur, instead of receiving victory plaudits in Seoul last week, would probably have been sitting in Tokyo directing the reinvasion of Korea from Japan. MacArthur instantly recognized the Reds' vital error. Some people ridiculed him for saying on July 20: "The first phase of the campaign has ended and with it the chance for victory by the North Korean forces...
...their advance-Taejon-Kumchon-Taegu-trying to turn the U.S. retreat into a rout. In this they failed. If, instead, they had diverted a heavier force to the south-coast drive-four divisions, for example, they would almost certainly have smashed through the thin U.S. crust and seized the vital port...
...this time, the Allies, having lost Kumchon, were standing on a fairly well-defined perimeter-with flanks on the south and east coasts-which was to grow smaller before it grew bigger. The south flank rested just west of Masan, the center of the line shielded Taegu, the vital "turntable," and on the east coast the line touched the sea north of Pohang. To defend his perimeter, Walker had, or soon would have, elements of five U.S. divisions-the 24th, 25th and 2nd Infantry, the 1st Cavalry, the 1st Marine...