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...Marines' southern toehold. The job even then would not be finished. For the Japs' great concentration point at Rabaul in New Britain would still be dangerously close-660 miles from Tulagi, 200 from Bougainville. The Japs would even then still be in upper New Guinea, a scant 350 miles from Rabaul. Above Port Moresby last week, an Australian force (with some U.S. troops) was slowly retreating, and soon the Japs may be in lower New Guinea, all too near (375 miles) to Australia itself. Until this entire corner of the Japs' Pacific empire is taken, the holding...
Operations Are Continuing. After eleven days of the first U.S. offensive in World War II, the established facts made a scant background for the story to come...
...Washington, "thin sharp remnants of the afternoon's cold wind dither across bleak LaFayette Square directly in front of the White House; tree limbs stick up bare and stark above the scant light of the posted lamps. . . . There is a silent deliberation in the movement of the cars. . . . Hundreds of pedestrians in a steady flow ease past the tall, iron picket fence separating the White House grounds from the avenue. . . . They move along quietly, talking if at all in whispers, subdued whispers. Silence on the avenue, despite the mob of cars, the mass of people, is apparent, deep enough...
...from Rostov and their river objective lie only rolling steppes, covered with slivery feather grass, ridged with few hills, marked by few towns. It is terrain eminently suitable for mechanized warfare. Part is scorching desert now, particularly as it slopes down to the salty Caspian: hard-baked land, offering scant obstacles...
...Cabinet of Brooks House, and is always a member of the Student Council. Richardson, who succeeds Charles S. Bridge '42, was chairman of the Council's Elections Committee which handled the election for class officers in February. He was appointed to the Council after missing election by a scant nine votes...