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...primer on naval power, this: historically, sea power is the most mobile and therefore the most economical form of military force. For 3,000 years or more, navies fought on the two-dimensional ocean surface. The carrier-based plane gave navies the third dimension of the air. It has even given them a sort of fourth dimension-a sweep of 500 miles or more inland from any coast. Nearly all the economic and political power centers of the world lie within 500 miles of deep water...
...Hopes. In issuing the new regulations, Gómez Morales and The Boys hoped to increase Argentine exports by cheapening them in terms of foreign exchange. They also hoped to lure back to Argentina, in the form of imports, some of the estimated $200 to $300 million which prudent Argentines have salted away abroad. In this way a stockpile would be built up in case of a new world war, which the Muchachos complacently expect. To attract more foreign capital investment into the country, restrictions were eased on the transfer of foreign companies' profits abroad, blocked for the past...
...even within talking reach of the 1950 pennant was the wonder of the season. Injuries had kept Old Reliable Tommy Henrich (.287 last year) out of the regular line-up most of the season. Joe DiMaggio (hitting .285) was winning games when they counted, but he had been off form all through midseason. Relief Pitcher Joe Page (3 won, 5 lost) was far behind his 1949 performance...
...Third Point. Next day he got his wish. With Bromwich, in fine form, setting up plays for Teammate Sedgman's smashes, the Aussies won the clinching doubles match from the U.S. pick-up pair of Schroeder and 36-year-old Gardnar Mulloy. The score...
...exuberance were typical themes of his London show-themes ill-suited to violent distortion. Enwonwu sometimes let the shape and grain of the wood guide his chisel, to produce partial abstractions that merely pleased the eye. "Sometimes," he told admirers at the show's opening, "I see the form in my mind and it grows and grows as I work. I am happy when I am hacking out; I never want to stop." Smoothing the thigh of his Dancing Figure with a pink-palmed hand, he sighed and added: "But when I must finish off my work, smooth...