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...Castrator" mines planted by the Germans in Belgium and Holland. Small blocks of wood, fitted with a striker pin, hold a single rifle cartridge. When a man walking at normal stride steps on the trigger, the cartridge explodes, drives the slug violently upward...
...this week the Red Army onslaught was in the full stride of a grand assault, gaining momentum and widening the advance. The Russians had pierced 40 miles, had spread their break to a width of 65 miles. They had taken their first prize: Kielce (pop. 58,000), a hub of roads and railways 20 miles west of the point where Konev stopped last August after he had bloodily won his Vistula bridgehead...
From the outset, defeat seemed in store for the Crimson. After ten minutes of play with the visitors already trailing the P.T. men, Stahl's regulars arrived on the scehe to rush into the fray with nary a practice shot. They started slow and never quite hit their stride all evening. Melville picked up a seven point advantage in the first two periods and keeping to their fast pace in the closing stanzas, nearly doubled their lead...
Quick Change. The Rundstedt assault changed the picture in a hurry. Air power got back in tactical stride. The slighted jobs took a lot of doing in a hurry. But by this week General Vandenberg could report on Principle 1: his Ninth had destroyed 457 German aircraft, probably knocked out 59 more, damaged 169. The Ninth's loss was 202 aircraft...
...timber. With Kurland collecting rebounds by the handful-his jumping reach is higher than the 10-ft.-high basket-unbeaten A. & M. humbled first-class N.Y.U., 44-to-41. (In another Madison Square Garden doubleheader, Muhlenberg's Mules, playing a cagey boring-in game, took St. Francis in stride, 56-to-18, for their sixth straight...