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...TIME turned back to the Ananias tradition by alleging that Florida had a "Fuller Warren type of government-by-lobby." This is a vertical variance from veracity . . . Lobbyists did not run the state government while I humbly occupied the curule chair at the state capitol of Florida-the paradisiacal peninsula visited by 5,000,000 pleasure-pursuing sun-seekers...
...General Masaharu Homma's 250,000 Japanese, supported by their uncontested control of the sea and the air. The troops, still the peacetime Army, were badly equipped. MacArthur ordered Wainwright to put into effect War Plan Orange, the 20-year-old strategy for a withdrawal to the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island, where the defenders would wait for help from the U.S. He fell back skillfully, but there was no rescue in prospect.With his scratch army he conducted five months of resistance against the enemy's first team...
...California's Monterey peninsula last week, two separate TV stations, about 14 miles apart in Monterey and Salinas, began beaming test patterns on the same channel (No. 8). It promised to be a friendly, take-turns arrangement. Monterey's KMBY-TV (one quarter owned by Bing Crosby) and Salinas' KSBW-TV had both applied to the FCC for the area's one open channel. Then they decided to pool forces rather than delay local television, perhaps for another year or so, while struggling through lengthy hearings. The FCC granted them its first share-time permit last...
Line Blocked. Said the President: "The last great population remaining in Asia that has not become dominated by the Kremlin, of course, is the subcontinent of India [and] Pakistan . . . Now let us assume that we lose Indo-China. If IndoChina goes, several things happen right away. The [Malay] Peninsula, the last little bit of land hanging on down there [see map^. would be scarcely defensible. The tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming, and all India would be outflanked. Burma would be in no position for defense...
...Stanford University decided to move its medical school from San Francisco, where real estate and operating costs come high, to the Palo Alto campus down the peninsula. Population has grown fast around Palo Alto, insuring plenty of patients for students to observe in the university hospital...