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Chaplain Mannion, once seagoing (aboard the aircraft carrier Saratoga, the cruiser Brooklyn), now carries a pack. When he jumps, it rides with him: a Mass kit, holy oils...
China Rallies. This brought the Japanese up squarely against the mountains. Here they abandoned their heavy artillery and well-stocked pack trains and took to the straggling, slippery trails, where the Chinese were dug in for the main battle. And there, for the first time, the Japanese met stiff resistance. Against crack Chinese units strung out south along a 50-mile front they threw their full strength. But their proudest advance, from Changyang over the mountains to Tuchenwan, netted them only 15 miles...
Poona to The Bronx. Soccer is played in some 60 nations with varying degrees of intensity and skill. In South America and the British Isles (where, legend says, the game was first played with the skull of a hated Dane) soccer fans pack stadiums seating 100,000 to 150,000. In Moscow a few years ago 2,000,000 fans applied for tickets to an international match between Turkey's No. 1 team and Moscow's beloved Dynamo Club (Russia's New York Yankees...
...difficult return journey some men went without food for long stretches. They ate bamboo shoots, mule steaks cut from their pack animals, elephant meat, boiled python, boiled grass. When they returned to the Indian frontier they were ravenous. Brigadier Wingate ate as much as his men, was asked by a solicitous general if he was not eating too heavily. Said he: "I find it quite impossible to overeat. During the march I read Xenophon and Plato's dialogues with Socrates. Now I find that moderation has become my guiding thought-wonderfully soothing...
...Potential Pounds. The Wire Recorder weighs only 10 lb. (minus the amplifier and tubes) and, when electric pow er lines are not available, runs on 25 lb. of batteries in a pack sack. Its ten miles of wire are good for four hours. Unlike a wax or rubber recording, the wire can be used again & again, because it can be wiped clean merely by reversing its run through the instrument, which unscrambles the molecules...