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Personal anecdotes about her are carefully winnowed by Sir Eric Mièville. her father's secretary, and only the "suitable" ones become public. Once, in childhood, Elizabeth was asked what she would most like to be. Said she: "A horse...
...Seed. A powerful minority of the 2,500,000 Slovaks has long given the impression that they are all devoutly Catholic, anti-German, anti-Czech, antiCommunist, preeminently pro-Slovak. Their hilly land (14,484 sq. mi.) had been a part of Hungary for 1,011 years when, in 1918, the Versailles peacemakers joined Slovakia to Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and created Czechoslovakia. (Ruthenia, which the Russians entered last week, became a part of Czechoslovakia in 1919, was seized by Hungary...
...follows the earth's curvature, instead of sailing into space, because it bounces along a reflecting roof of electrically charged particles, called the Kennelly -Heaviside layer, which blankets the earth's outer atmosphere. Physicists have measured the height of this layer, varying from 60 to 1,200 mi., by bouncing radio waves off it and catching their echo on a receiver. The first hint of radio's possible usefulness as a ground-level detector came when experimenters noticed that a ship moving between a transmitter and receiver interfered with radio waves. The basic radar instrument had three...
...tide now lapped at Festung Europa; it washed most heavily at Poland and Rumania. This week it was 50 mi. from Rumania's 1940 border, 275 mi. from frightened Bucharest, 200 mi. from Warsaw. Only 240 mi. away, Ploesti's oilfields-fueling pump of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe-tempted Russian bombers...
...fortnight's fighting by Chinese and U.S. infantrymen had all but pushed the Singapore-seasoned Jap 18th Division out of the 1,800-sq. mi. Hukawng Valley (described by Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell as a "rathole"). Chinese prepared to push on into the more hospitable Mo-gaung Valley. Their asserted mission is to clear the new Ledo (northern) road into China (TIME...