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...Elden Sawhill '43, president of Brooks House, heads the Social Service Committee and has the task of uniting the efforts of two coordinating PBH committees, Social Service and Undergraduate Faculty. In large part, Sawhill's sector acts as booking agent of such activities as sending the Pi Eta show to Fort Devens and staging dances for draftees as was done before December...
...DELHI--Japanese troops, after driving to within 40 miles of the Burma oil fields, have veered notheast in heavy force in an attempt to drive a wedge between British imperials defending that sector and Chinese troops battling along the Mandalay Road to the East, it was revealed tonight...
...lieutenants, for the corporals, there was not even certainty as to what bitter job would have to be done. They could only guess: southern Russia, probably, between Orel and the Crimea, logically, a drive for oil and toward India. Most of the reinforcements were pouring into that sector. Only the Führer and his intimates could say when the drive would begin. The Russians were putting on one last effort to take the German key points; they were attacking all along the line, but especially in the central part of the front, around Smolensk. In the far north, where...
...Siege. The Japanese flood rose and widened, flowed inland from Indramayu to the railway between Batavia and Surabaya. Soon, in this central invasion sector, the Japanese were within 30 mountainous miles of Bandung. On the west they pushed inward toward Batavia. The Dutch destroyed everything of military use in Batavia, even though they insisted that the capital itself was not yet in danger. At Tjepu they wrecked the last major oil base left to them in the Indies. Then came an announcement which accented Java's extremity. The United Nations' joint southwest Pacific command in Java no longer...
...result of this maneuver was in doubt at week's end (the German High Command called the report of the encirclement "plain nonsense"). Elsewhere the Red Army's anniversary push met stiffening resistance. A second Russian pincer, laid around Dorogobuzh in the central sector, had so far failed to close on another Nazi Army. In "a southern sector" Russia conceded a German wedge of 24 square miles into the Russian line...