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...hard, leave it as a core of resistance, like Leningrad, and fall back to a new defense based on the Volga. If that in turn is cracked, fall back to a new Russia for which plans have long been laid, in and behind the Urals. In each step backward, balance losses of men and ground against damage inflicted on the enemy...
...Army had already taken a decisive step toward improving discipline: bringing up 18,000 new officers (see col. 3) while it was weeding out the backward. In the armies of Ben Lear and Walter Krueger are more good officers than sluggards. Soldiers returning to posts from furlough are likely to find life different-and tougher...
There was no telling until the end. For four rounds, challenger and champion alike exhibited nothing more than what Radio Announcer Don Dunphy kept calling "a healthy respect for each other." Joe crept forward, his snake's tongue left flickering its cruel, aimless explorations; Lou marched backward, bobbing extravagantly 'and waving his arms. More from boredom than conviction, the press crew gave Nova the second and third rounds. In the fourth Louis found an opening, hit Nova all over with ten lefts and rights. The crowd's screams were cut short by the bell. Two rounds later...
...clear to everybody that Bertie was "backward, frivolous, vain." They tried sending him to Edinburgh and Oxford, to Canada, to the U.S. He planted a chestnut tree at George Washington's grave, and on one occasion, according to rumor, eluded his guardians "and indulged his abounding manhood in the bagnios of New York...
While 30% of U.S. newspapers have at one time or another declared openly for a shooting war, U.S. magazines have been more backward. Not even the most interventionist of them has, in so many blunt words, told the U.S. to start firing. Last week one of them...