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Somehow Mr. Nast seemed to have had the ability to develop the best of those who entered his employ to a degree not to be found in any other magazine-publishing enterprise of our generation...
When and how Montgomery's second round would develop was the General Staff's secret. It might be a sudden onslaught. It might be other short, sharp jabs. Or it might be a blow at an unexpected spot. Despite the change of wind, no one was discounting the wile of Erwin Rommel...
Should the Caucasus battle develop this winter, it is likely to be a personal-leader struggle between German General Siegmund List and Russian General Melnik. Melnik conducted the guerrilla offensive all last winter behind the German lines. He is more of a flat-terrain soldier than a mountaineer, but the essentials of the battle for the Caucasus will be fought in the approaches and. because the Germans will not be able to move much in winter, this tough Soviet Cossack will probably harass the Germans more than the actual battle will...
...designed as the Army's air arm, not primarily for mass raids. Its attack on Britain was a none-too-brilliant job of improvisation. Since then German aircraft production has kept abreast of the Army's needs, but it is doubtful if Germany has been able to develop the heavy-bomber production which Britain and the U.S. achieved only after prolonged travail. Nonetheless the British are preparing for the worst. (When Prime Minister Churchill boasted that British aircraft production exceeded German output, a British official plaintively observed: "How the hell does he know?") They have dug deep, well...
...they also possess the astonishing ability to reproduce themselves like living organisms. A virus "generation" probably lasts for only 20 to 30 minutes, so that an eon of virus evolution can occur within a few years on the human time scale. New and fiercer breeds of virus can thus develop from time to time, then vanish. Doctors believe that the virus which caused the worldwide influenza plague of 1918 is still with us, but the once deadly old stock is relatively decadent...