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...speed of better than 40 m.p.h., an air-cooled engine with an automatic torque converter transmission, is maneuvered by a simple control stick. Its high-velocity 76-mm. gun packs a lethal punch, and is fitted to a gyroscopic sight which keeps the gun on target over the sharpest bumps. Weighing only 25.8 tons, it can be transported by air, is already in limited production at the Army's Cleveland plant. At Aberdeen last week, Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins officially christened the T-41 the "Walker Bulldog," in honor of the late General Walton ("Little Bulldog") Walker...
...while he was still in short pants. "What old men can whittle I could whittle before I was ten," he says. "I loved my puukko so much that when I went to bed I'd put it under my pillow and pray I would some day have the sharpest knife in the world...
...playing "is a most truthful representation of magnificent compositions, but not an outpouring of a magnificent personality . . . Everything is distinct, clear, sharp as a pencil sketch." But if Hanslick had never written a word about any other musician, his place in musical history would still be secure as the sharpest thorn in the sensitive flesh of Richard Wagner...
...stage to encompass; while Charles Lamb contended that the title role cannot be acted, that Lear's greatness is inward and "intellectual," and that when put behind the footlights he becomes merely "an old man tottering about . . . with a walking stick." There are other problems. The sharpest drama in the play-Lear's division of his kingdom-comes at the very outset, making the play itself all aftermath. There is not only an elaborate subplot about Gloucester and his sons, but plot and subplot are two tales with but a single theme...
Barely a few days before, NATO deputies and defense chiefs had settled the sharpest issue: German participation in a Western European army. From France they had wrung assent to German regimental combat teams of 6,000 men each; in turn they had agreed to the French demand that these units be absorbed into divisions commanded by non-Germans...