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Inspired by tales of women helping to defend Russia, Mrs. Edward Frederick Boultbee, the wife of an air-raid warden in the village of Attleborough, Norfolk, last week edged up to an "invading" tank in British Army maneuvers, popped a rock into the open turret...
Catherine of Aragon is a smooth, vivid, ripely meditated job of historical reconstruction, which brings the luckless, dauntless queen into a full human light. Catherine changed the course of history not by riding with the tide of events but by standing against it, like a great rock in a stream...
While the tanks were tangled, Indian infantry stormed Hellfire. These wiry veterans of crag warfare on India's North-West Frontier sneaked into defiles and crevasses as obscurely as rock-dwelling lizards. They stormed post after post, took many, and by night felt confident of taking the rest...
...same forces that spewed up the Rocky Mountains, millions of years ago, turned edgewise a huge ledge of red sandstone, 15 miles from Denver. At right angles to the rock, on the rising hillside, up-jut two crags, Creation Rock and Ship Rock. In this enclosure a whisper sounds clearly, and anything from one fiddle to a full band sends lush tones rolling upward...
...dugout's ventilation system had failed. The yellow vegetable-oil lamps had flickered out, one by one, for lack of oxygen. The thousands within had grown restive, then in panic had tried to force their way out all at once through the narrow twisting slits in the rock. Last official count of the dead: 461-a full half-season's toll in a single evening...