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...After the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) Europe enjoyed a long period of relative quiet. That war devastated large parts of Europe, killed off millions of people and left starvation and disease . . . and there was no rich Uncle Sam across the ocean to crash through with food. . . . Won't this postwar charity and generosity of ours encourage Europe to go on staging big wars...
...boundaries are frontier guards, specialized soldiers with enormous jaws, or with syringe-like heads which squirt out corrosive liquids. So attached are termites to secrecy that a structure invaded by them seldom collapses of its own weight. They are careful to leave enough wood to support it, lest its crash expose them...
...House Military Affairs Committee called in a whole array of experts: State Secretary Byrnes, War Secretary Patterson, Chief of Staff Eisenhower, Chief of Naval Operations Nimitz, the Air Forces' General Spaatz. Many a Congressman not on the committee tried to crash the closed hearing without success...
Eventually, pilots hope, an integrated radar system will give the position of every plane within 80 miles of an airport, and enable every pilot to see his own position in relation to the landing field. By then, accidents such as last fortnight's California crash will be due only to mechanical failure or human carelessness...
That was in 1930, at the bar of London's Old Bailey. Hatry's name was indeed a byword-for financial juggling at its most spectacular. When all his Indian clubs clatter-banged down together in 1929, investors lost $145,000,000. Hatry's crash shook shaky Wall Street. But last week Clarence Hatry, out of jail, was far from irretrievably ruined. From the look of things he was building up another fortune-his third...