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KAMCHATKA PENINSULA: nine divisions (two infantry, one marine, one paratroop, five airborne); 300 planes, naval units including a submarine flotilla at the major naval base of Petropavlovsk...
From the Spinach Fields. On a six-mile peninsula in the Delaware River, a mile below Trenton, the largest steelworks ever built at one time is rising in the rural countryside. It is Big Steel's new Fairless Works. It will cost $400 million. Giant earthmovers are clawing across 3,800 acres of bean fields and tomato patches; 6,000 construction workers are laying 20 miles of paved roads and 75 miles of railroad. Huge shovels scoop out the river basin to dock ore ships that will come from Venezuela...
...figure there's no future in being holed up in a little apartment in town for ten years or getting up at 6 in the morning to commute to work and then not getting home until after dark. So they all want to work down on the peninsula where they can have a little house in the country and play golf or tennis and live the good life...
...Erskine, 52, who won the D.S.O. for helping to repel Rommel at El Alamein (said his citation: "He changed the whole course of battle"). "We are not going to be turned out, forced out or kicked out," he announced. His first move: to isolate Egyptian troops in the Sinai peninsula to the east of the canal...
...Duke of Wellington, when he was very old and incredibly distinguished, was telling how once, at mess in the Peninsula, his servant had opened a bottle of port, and inside found...