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...Chief of Staff George Marshall, the cracking of the famed Japanese "purple" code, for which Friedman was principally responsible, led to vital foreknowledge of Hitler's intentions in Europe and gave the U.S. Navy a priceless advantage in intelligence that led to such critical victories as Coral Sea, Midway and subsequent bold carrier strikes. Friedman himself gently declines to take so much credit. "There is no single person," he once said, "to whom the major share of credit should go. It represents an achievement of the Army cryptanalytic bureau." But the fact is that, more than any other...
Although maintaining no military forces of its own, Iceland harbors one of the largest NATO air and missile bases containing several thousand NATO troops, hundreds of planes, and large-scale rocket installations. Lying midway between Moscow and New York on the Great Circle air route, the base at Keflavik would be a prime center of operations in the event of general...
...those old bullies, the Dodgers and the Yankees, you can forget about them. Midway through the season the whole Bomber infield will be drafted and the Brooklyn boys will resent the bus ride to Jersey City to play their games...
...plan, which will go into effect next fall, will provide a midway ground between residence and commuting, Charles P. Whitelock, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House, said yesterday...
...placed part of the blame for this failure on the Bureau's abandoning of the weather ship "Hotel" two years ago. Reports from this ship midway between New York and Bermuda would have informed forecasters of the shift in direction of the storm. During the critical period, there were no upper air reports at all west of a line from Nova Scotia to Bermuda, and surface reports were also inadequate...