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...inner core? It had been different in World War II. The Japanese, landing on Attu and Kiska, had tied up ten U.S. divisions. The Navy, hard-pressed at the crucial battle of Midway, had nonetheless spared five cruisers, 13 destroyers and six submarines to defend the big peninsula against a diversionary raid. Air bases were strewn along the coast and down the Aleutians at enormous cost: in 1942 the Army diverted desert-camouflaged planes intended for Africa to defend the very areas where the U.S. was now closing out bases...
Called the "Sila Project," it is now under way in Calabria, on the heel of the Italian peninsula. In an eroded hilly region, about 40 miles wide and 100 miles deep, where three rich absentee families owned tens of thousands of acres, mostly idle or undercultivated, hundreds of impoverished peasant families are getting new land and new hope. Last week TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi saw the reform in progress at Santa Severina, a village near Crotone. His report...
Carmel, a little world of its own on California's Monterey Peninsula where artists, the indolent wealthy and year-round vacationers rub elbows, is well used to strange characters. But it discovered a new kind in 60-year-old Norman Duxbury, caretaker of the city's outdoor Forest Theater. Like all the other city employees, Duxbury signed the state's new non-Communist oath. Then, after the city clerk looked up his voting record, Duxbury admitted that he had been a Communist all along...
...trip by submarine from England to meet French underground agents before the North African invasion. At other times, he served as deputy to General Dwight Eisenhower, helped make the Allied deal with French Admiral Jean Darlan, later commanded the Fifth Army in its long, bitter fight up the Italian peninsula. This week, as it must to all generals (it seems), publication day came to Four-Star General Mark Clark, now Chief of the Army Field Forces. In readable, relaxed prose, Clark's Calculated Risk (Harper; $5) candidly describes the clashes between commanders and Allies, assigns praise & blame with soldierly...
...American right flank, four South Korean divisions were well across the parallel, moving up in a looping front from the center of the peninsula to their farthest penetration on the east coast...