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...Chillun. He took as his target the now well-known article by "X" which recently appeared in the magazine Foreign Affairs. "X" was George Kennan, top State Department planner and Russian expert. The State Department denied that the article inspired the Truman Doctrine, but the thinking behind both was certainly cut from the same cloth...
...Marine Corps aviator, credited as originator of dive-bombing tactics; of coronary thrombosis; in San Diego, Calif. During the 1927 Nicaraguan uprising, an outpost of U.S. Marines was surrounded by 600 rebels; Rowell loaded up his De Havilland biplanes with 17-lb. bombs, pinpointed them by diving at the target, routed the enemy. He later demonstrated his technique at the 1932 Cleveland Air Races. Looking on: Luftwaffe Colonel General Ernst Udet, who commented: "We ought to try it in Germany." They did. Result: the famed Stukas...
Something for the Girls. Above all other sounds came the penetrating squeal of indignant women. No female was too young or too old to be considered a target. Unwary old ladies were conked by water bags. Until the police called a halt, hundreds of women were rumped by electrified canes and battery-powered "jump boxes"-instruments which made them leap like gazelles. Thousands of women-even the tarts who gathered expectantly near hotel exits-were soaked by the Legion's merciless squirt guns, by a truck-mounted spray machine, and even, at times, by streams from the jugs which...
...Navy radar men thought the McCormick explanation "possible but extremely unlikely." One expert went so far as to insist: "a close-in target is always seen, unless the radar is out of order...
Everybody's favorite target was Episcopal Traveler Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the U.S.'s oldest religious journal, The Churchman, which frequently has hard words for Roman Catholics and soft ones for friends of Russia. Full of news and views after his Yugoslav tour, which included a visit to the prison cell of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, Dr. Shipler stated flatly that he found no evidence of suppression of religious activity there.* Still, he "doubted very much" that Yugoslav clergymen could safely attack the Government from the pulpit...