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...German right was scrambling up the Italian boot so rapidly that the pursuing Allies-making 15 miles a day along the flat Tyrrhenian coastal plain-had trouble keeping contact. The German center in the hills and the left along the Adriatic, falling back more slowly, faced dire peril. Through the flagging right the Allies might knife suddenly eastward, surround the rest of the Germans...
...main strongholds in front of the Alban Hills. From Artena, the Fifth Army's big guns shelled Valmontone and adjacent stretches of Via Casilina. So the main escape route to Rome of General von Flietinghoff's Tenth Army remnants, dropping back from Cassino, became a road of dire peril...
...Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved. But meanwhile the southeastern boom fosters a nearer-term political purpose for the rugged individualists of the U.S. oil industry. As Oil Czar Ickes backs his unpopular Arabian pipeline (TIME, Feb. 14, et seq.) with dire warnings that the U.S. "cannot oil another war," the industry can use every new oil strike at home as an argument against...
...Collision Between a Streetcar and a Hearse, a small, gay trolley car was seen crashing into a funeral cart, stopping just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting monstrosities, dire prophecies of the end of the world, dances of death, images of delirium. For in the main José Posada addressed an illiterate people who could best be reached with the imagery of sensational violence...
...long as that battle was stalemated, no decisive result could be reached at Anzio (except for the dire possibility of a German victory). From the first, the beachhead landing had been planned not as an independent thrust at Rome (the available force-six divisions-was not adequate for such a task) but as a bold flanking attack calculated to make the Germans pull back hastily from their positions along the so-called Gustav Line...