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...clear, he said, that the West has never been in sight of the 1952 target of 85 military divisions in the central sector of Europe, and that while tactical nuclear weapons and the possibility of an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile had lessened the danger somewhat, they also created great uncertainty as to when, and in what manner, NATO forces would actually be used...
With carrier planes circling overhead and ten destroyers guarding their flanks, they sailed slowly north out of the wreck-cluttered harbor and faded into the wintry Mediterranean dusk. The troops themselves were glad to go: it had not been pleasant duty on their sector, crowded in by Egyptians stirred by inflammatory propaganda in Nasser's newspapers...
There are things more cruel than the sea, British Novelist Nicholas Monsarrat has decided. Having established his rank as a topnotch fiction craftsman in The Cruel Sea (1951), Monsarrat has now made a troubled but effective literary landfall. His second big novel tells of a bloody skirmish in a sector of the no man's land that stretches between white and black along the length of Africa...
From Florida came sharp signs of a repeat Eisenhower victory in that no-longer-solid sector of the Solid South. Holyoke, Mass., another good sign of labor's mood, gave Stevenson a margin too thin to suggest anything but defeat...
Martin is as unruffled under public criticism as he is in the quiet of his own home. He can hardly make a move without provoking tantrums in some political sector, where worry springs eternal that something he does will cost votes. Nevertheless, he has earned a reputation for disarming his most vehement critics with quiet logic, unfailing good humor. His formula: "When I get involved in a controversy, I don't care whether the people on the other side are s.o.b.s. What mat ters is what they stand...