Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When last week's U.N. attack began, Matt Ridgway, an austerely handsome man of 56, tramped alongside the lead tank of a column, critically watching the two lines of infantrymen shuffle up the road a few hundred yards ahead. Neatly hooked to the web harness he wore over his trench coat were a paratrooper's first-aid kit and the hand grenade that has become as famous a trademark as George Patton's pearl-handled pistols...
When Communist rebellion erupted in Tonkin's Red River delta four years ago, the French relied on a web of 900 funny little Beau Geste forts built of bricks, mud and logs. This winter, Chinese Comrade Mao Tse-tung gave Indo-Chinese Comrade Ho Chi Minh bazookas, mortars and artillery, which blasted many of the French forts to rubble. Only the dynamic leadership of newly arrived General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and hastily shipped U.S. arms hurled Ho back...
...Gold as the "most selfless man I have ever met in my entire life." He characterized him as a man who had often borrowed money from loan agencies to lend to fellow employees in need. He said that Gold had received no money from Russia, had entered the Soviet web believing that he was helping an ally. After that "he was entrapped...
Hollywood Star Playhouse (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). William Holden in The Tangled Web...
...Such American liberals as Owen Lattimore and Harvard's Professor John Fairbank have impugned the motives of the U.S. Open Door policy, by which Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 protected China from a growing web of foreign "concessions"; Hay insisted that China have a right to trade with all nations. In spite of this policy, U.S. investment in China was never large. It reached $122 million in 1937, about a quarter of the U.S. investment in Mexico, and much of the U.S. China investment was in hospitals and schools. Ironically, many U.S. traders in China falsely denounced...