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Within a week the partially completed bomber strip near Holtz Bay was in U.S. hands. Ridge after ridge was captured, until the defenders were compressed into an area of 20 sq. mi. U.S. losses were lighter than had been expected...
Some 200,000 Nagas live in an area of about 4,000 sq. mi. They live a communal existence, share food and work (although males usually retire at the age of eight and thereafter devote themselves to mastering and using the spear, crossbow and dah, a wicked knife). They are capable though casual farmers. Some raise pigs for trade, but for eating they prefer the dog, which is bred for the Naga table...
...Vertical Approach. At Dunnellon Field, one of the bases in AAFSAT's 15,500-sq.-mi. domain, visiting newsmen gawked at three Mustang fighter-bombers circling almost soundlessly at 8,000 feet. One by one they peeled off, grew in size and sound as they hurtled earthward...
Married. Prince Franz Josef II, 36, ruler of the half-pint-sized (65 sq. mi.) peaceful Principality of Liechtenstein, between onetime Austria and Switzerland; and Countess Gina Wilczek, 21, granddaughter of the late Viennese Count Hans Wilczek; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein...
...Germans, whether they jabbed any further or not, had already swept up some 4,000 sq. mi. of Tunisia, now had room to move around. More important to them, they had removed any threat to their flank when they turned south to face their old enemy, Montgomery. It would be some time before Montgomery's Eighth, slowly advancing around the ends of the Mareth Line, and Eisenhower's central Tunisian forces could join hands...