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...they had been at El Alamein, Mareth, Enfidaville and Italy's Gustaf Line, the Germans were entrenched again. Now it was the Gothic Line, a complex of concrete pillboxes behind a maze of mine fields and barbed wire entanglements north of Italy's Arno River. Manning the positions were twelve divisions of stubborn Huns commanded by able Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. Their orders: to hold until the last day of summer...
...committee's problem is more complex than merely stressing mechanics. Factors of personality, background, and habits are the keys to each individual problem and must be dealt with. Douropulos works privately with each case, often assigning outside work for practice...
...report: "The resultant feeling on the part of individuals was that they were being double-crossed, and the feeling gradually grew up, abetted by certain officers, that the unit was an orphan, serving under an unsympathetic high command." That rang familiarly in Army ears: too often had the orphan complex been the fate of "special units...
...distinctly understood that he was making no claims of having created a test-tube baby. He has succeeded in thus fertilizing three ova. One of his products had reached the three-cell stage of growth. But Dr. Rock modestly doubted that science would ever be able to reproduce the complex of hormones and other substances in a mother's body required to develop the billions of cells that make up a human embryo. His experiments, however, have made it possible for the first time to see the beginnings of human conception. Dr. Rock further hoped that his methods might...
...sound that pleases him-as though the subdued hum of the household behind the closed door, the murmur of the capital beyond the curtained windows, and further away still the vast chatter of the continents all blended together for him into a sort of music in whose warm and complex counterpoint he found comfort and a sense of ultimate harmony...