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Bandbox answered: "Hello, Firefly One. Hello, Firefly One. We have a target for you. We will mark the area with two volleys of white phosphorus shells. Take a heading north from your present position and look straight ahead...
Firefly One's crew dropped the flares through three-foot metal tubes, ripping off a strip of white webbing that ignited each flare and opened its parachute. Suddenly the valley below, surrounded by paddy fields striding up sharp-shadowed mountains, leaped into garish light. Bandbox identified the target-an east-west ridge with a saddle in the middle-and Firefly called down an Invader. The Invader pilot, however, could not find the target ridge. "Okay, boy," said Firefly, 'Til turn on my landing lights and point...
Inside the Soviet Union, anti-U.S. propaganda has suddenly broadened. Formerly Russian attacks were focused on "Wall Street imperialists" and "ruling circles " Now the whole U.S.seems to be the target A new tailor-made history of the Western allies' intervention in Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution is shrilled on the radio-"Our people will never forget [these] bloody crimes!" Also World War I is being refought in the press: the U S has been Russia's enemy "invariably'' nee 1917, and it plotted to "bleed Russia white during...
Said Tory Leader George Drew: "There is no sense of that urgency which is in keeping with the nature of the emergency . . . This is a war which has already cost the United States more than 55,000 casualties." Said Tory George Hees, a World War II army officer: "The target in the United States for the end of June this year is to have 3,500,000 men under arms. Our ceiling is 69,000. Therefore, their target is 50 times that of Canada, instead of eleven times, as it should be in proportion to population...
M.I.T. triumphantly reported the success of a fund drive: $25 million raised in two years-actually $5,000,000 beyond the target. In the same breath, M.I.T. announced a new drive...