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Said Schwartz: "I didn't have much defense in depth, so I decided we would have to pull out." Score: about 20 Japs killed, many more wounded; U.S. casualties, none. His charge was a minute action, but in the mosaic of New Guinea warfare it was typical of the bitter inch-by-inch, day-by-day battle to throw out the Japs...
...R.A.F. Ferry Command plane was 4,000 feet above Montreal when Harry Griffiths, 20, a civilian employe, fell through an open bomb bay. Griffiths grabbed a bay door and hung on, but could not pull himself back into the plane. Pilot Sidney Gerow, unable to leave the controls and help Griffiths, swooped low over frozen Lake St. Louis and snouted: "Let go!" Griffiths fell 30 feet, slid along the ice, got up and walked away-bruised, frostbitten, unharmed...
...instrument, a refinement of the commercial gravitimeter used in locating oilfields, is a strong spring with a weight attached to its lower end. Any change in the pull of gravity changes the pull of the weight, shortens or lengthens the spring by an invisible amount. The instrument records fluctuations in gravity of one part in a billion...
...gravitational pull of the earth and the counterpull of the sun Si moon, which produce ocean tides, would logically also affect dry land...
...Evangelist Buchman 64, was last week in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., convalescing from a heart attack in November. His patriotic pageant You Can Defend America (TIME, May 25), his chief activity nowadays, has been temporarily suspended, but its north-of-the-border adaptation, Pull Together, Canada, is going great guns in Nova Scotia...