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When Adolf Hitler marched into Soviet Russia, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya quit the tenth grade of Moscow's 202nd Secondary School and joined a guerrilla band. Hair-cropped, in men's clothes, tall, 18-year-old Zoya proved an apt recruit: before the Germans captured her, she had cut a German field-telephone wire, fired German troop quarters, destroyed a 20-horse enemy stable...
...matters are often useless. What the Army needs is courage and resourcefulness-both, said he, plain products of a good education. He further shocked the delegation when he told them that the college-graduate soldier did not have as good self-discipline as the soldier of high-school and grade-school level...
...picked civilians to take over such paper work. Among them were bankers, brokers, even undertakers. Ranging in age from 27 to 42, all had been executives of one kind or another in civilian life, were due after 60 days of training to emerge as lieutenants and lieutenants, junior grade, in the Navy...
...Naval Reserve, announced that he would resign his $12,300-a-year office as soon as he was called to active duty. "What does my life matter when the life of my country is at stake?" cried he. A Naval official said Zeidler would be made a lieutenant, junior grade, or full lieutenant, probably assigned to recruiting or promotion...
...High-grade iron ore deposits in Utah...