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This news is worse than it sounds. Under the Army's timetable of planning ahead, the production goal must be set higher month after month, until the still-growing Army is wholly equipped to the last shoelace and gas mask, and further, until the Army has a solid backlog of reserve equipment for the changing needs of the war. When production falls below goals two months in a row, as seems to have happened, the Army loses not only equipment but time-and if enough time is lost, an all-out assault on Festung Europa may be delayed...
...main event on the program was the donning of a rubber Willkie mask by one of the performers, followed by the throwing out of the first ball in the Winthrop House extra-softball season in the traditional F.D.R. manner. The two men concluded the performance by jumping to the ground; training for the parachute troops no doubt...
Muchado on hearing these lascivious runtors threatened to withdraw from the show. Armband took this is stride, saying fire till you seeurgglt flash trash mask crask umguggle...
...teacher, Nadi insists on strict observance of the punctilio of fencing, even to a show of courtesy toward the judges-for whom Nadi usually has only the most perfunctory respect. In saluting an opponent, a Nadi fencer must hold his mask in his left hand with four fingers on top, look his adversary straight in the eye, bring the blade of his weapon up before his right eye, then sweep it down and to the right. The blade, says Nadi, must whistle through the air, must under no circumstances commit the "frightful discord" of striking the floor...
...When I see a fencer smile under his mask I know he cannot be very good...