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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whereabouts of certain U.S. units; everyone guessed that some were being readied for another amphibious flanking assault along the west coast of Korea. Efficient, sharp-spoken Major General Edward M. Almond, as MacArthur's chief of staff, had planned the Inchon landing and then led the X Corps ashore to capture Seoul. It seemed a likely bet that Ed Almond and his seasoned men would figure in the next big action...
...origin of diseases, a Washington orthopedist rattled some old bones last week. Exhibited to the District of Columbia Medical Society was a collection of human bones culled with care from the Smithsonian Institution's vast collection by Orthopedist William J. Tobin. Beside each bone was an X-ray diagnosis of what ailed the long-dead patient...
...Wednesday the avalanche began to roll. Late the night before a motorized column of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, barreling up from the south, had joined hands with the X Corps pushing down from the Inchon beachhead. "Complete breakthrough," reported Tokyo. On Thursday the enemy's main force abandoned Seoul, his trapped divisions in the southwest fell apart. On Friday, U.N. communiques called it a "rout." By week's end, the avalanche had run its thunderous course. North Korean organized resistance had ended, U.N. forces were mopping up isolated remnants, the first U.N. division had crossed the 38th...
...months from the day it had fallen, Seoul was in U.N. hands. The North Koreans pulled out northward toward Uijongbu, a road and rail center 18 miles below the 38th parallel. Marine planes flattened the town with Tiny Tim rockets (1,284 Ibs. weight, 11.75 inches in diameter). One X Corps column raced eastward from Seoul to the Ichon area, where it linked up with South Korean troops sweeping the east coast...
...soon, Dr. Mott concedes in his dramatic case history in the current Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, to pronounce Mrs. X "cured." But her amazing comeback after 17 years suggests to him that psychiatrists should take a long, hard look at their definition of "incurable."* He also thinks that they should go slow with extreme procedures such as brain surgery (lobotomy) or shock treatments which are often ordered for schizophrenics from fear that "the patient will deteriorate." Pointedly he asks: "What really is deterioration?" Mrs. X showed none, even after what seemed an eternity in bedlam...