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...trading with a Hitlerized economic bloc in post-war Europe. If Hitler wins, 48.3% thought U. S. business could go along without changing; 35.3% thought reorganization could be confined to foreign trade; only 14.1% thought U. S. domestic and foreign business would have to be reorganized on a totalitarian pattern. Fencing off Southern Latin America with an added fleet appealed to about half (49.8%), undertaking to guarantee its exports as well, appealed to only 19.5%. Though U. S. foreign policy should be directed to "keeping Japanese ambitions within reasonable bounds" (56.2%), most executives thought this could be accomplished peacefully. They...
Once having established himself on the St. Lawrence, an invader might pattern his advance by land on the thrust of gouty General Burgoyne down the Hudson in the Revolution. Mercilessly harried on his flanks as he moved south, luxury-loving Briton Burgoyne finally dug in near Saratoga, put his women in a safe place and tried to knock Gates's Army out of his way. Soundly defeated in one of the world's decisive battles (largely through the tactical resource of Gates's brilliant subordinate, Benedict Arnold) he had to hand over his sword. Thus ended...
...young woman who, when she sneezed, nearly always sneezed twice in rapid succession. After one sneeze she waited for the second and if it did not come felt "a distressing sense of incompleteness." Checking the sneeze behavior of the woman's mother, he ran into another double-sneeze pattern. When a granddaughter was born, Dr. Erickson kept careful record of her sneezing, found three generations of double sneezers. In his report in the current Journal of Genetic Psychology, he concluded: "Variations in the [sneeze] pattern may be inherited...
...Milch's military colleagues like him. He is more a business go-getter than a military man of the German pattern. Instead of sternness he has a bland, baby-faced smoothness. Some super-Nazis still view with suspicion his birth, despite his mother's affidavit that he was illegitimate. Her husband, who gave the child his name, was a Jew. But Hitler likes and trusts him highly, gave him a gold Nazi Party pin (great favor...
...Although few viruses have ever been seen, scientists have measured many of them, and can identify them by pattern, in much the same way as a blind man knows the shape of his furniture by groping around. Viruses are measured in several different ways. One is to strain a substance known to contain a virus (like sap from a diseased plant) through a filter with pores of submicroscopic size. The smallest virus, that of foot-and-mouth disease, is ten-millionths of a millimeter in diameter...