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...went to her berth, "I sat drinking my milk and thinking about tier," writes Author Farrell. Readers will wish that he had thought longer, or that a sharper writer had done his writing for him. For while Dream Girl is built around a pretentious theme, Author Farrell can muster only nine undercooked stories to support it. His more familiar squalor tales and mass-and-class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight to his death during...
...thirds vote is required to put an ordinance into the records. The majority of members saw no possibility that the opposition could muster the necessary six votes...
...argued: "One may reasonably think it wiser in the long run to let an unhappy, bitter outcast vent his venom before any crowds he can muster . . . One may trust that his patent impotence will be a foil to anything he may propose. Indeed, it is a measure of the confidence of a society in its own stability that it suffers such fustian to go unchecked. [But] here we are faced with something very different"-i.e., the American Communists, who secretly conspire, conceal their membership, take orders from abroad...
Against this formidable Russian force, the West can muster little indeed. Western Germany has no troops; France might put three divisions in the field; Great Britain's strength in occupied Germany is now probably not more than two divisions. The U.S. has one understrength division and four or five housekeeping and constabulary regiments scattered from one end of its zone to the other. U.S. air strength is shockingly inadequate, consists of little more than two fighter groups and one bomber group. U.S. observers say that the ratio of Soviet to U.S. air strength is about...
Russian-made North Korean artillery and mortars also had the edge on the South Koreans' U.S.-made weapons. This was not because the Red weapons were better, but because they were bigger. Against the Reds' 120-mm. mortars and howitzers, the biggest pieces the South Koreans could muster were the U.S. 81-mm. mortars and 105-mm. howitzers...