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These were the chief points on which the opposition had trained its sights. But no heavy barrage was fired. Only one Senator took careful aim. Pointing a long, tobacco-stained finger, Colorado's big (200 lb.), bald Republican Eugene Donald Millikin lined up his target: the use of U.S. armed forces under the Charter. He asked: what control would the U.S. retain over its share of an international armed force? Could the U.S. reserve to itself decision over where and how to use its forces? Senator Millikin's close questioning of John Foster Dulles, the Committee...
...Fort Banning last week a corporal picked up a 57-mm. cannon (which ordinarily weighs 3,000 lbs.), and aimed it as casually as a shotgun. He fired a 2¼-lb. projectile (more than 2 in. in diameter) which demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away. The weight of this cannon: 45 Ibs. There was not enough recoil "to move the skin on my shoulder...
...morning, three battleships, still newer and still bigger than the Indianas, appeared in the more dangerous waters off Muroran, at the mouth of Hokkaido's Volcano Bay. They were the Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin, and they took the Nihon Steel Works and the Wanishi Iron Works as their target, while screening craft darted closer inshore to shoot at smaller bull's-eyes...
...have a lot of improvisation about it. His directive from Nimitz may require him to strike an island or group of islands and neutralize the air power based there-as last September, when he had his first sea command in more than two years, and Mindanao was the target. That seemed too soft, so he went back and tackled the central Philippines. They, too, seemed soft...
...even as coolly efficient Ivy is displacing the nation's other blondes in the minds of her three flying wolves as No. 1 target for tonight, tragedy skulks behind the scenes. The gayest rake of the lot (Robert Cummings, an Army flyer in fact as well as fancy) is doomed to die from one of those mysteriously incurable diseases which in filmdom carry off their perfectly healthy victims with stopwatch accuracy at curtain time. Ivy's inevitable wedding steeps all four principals in a maudlin effusion of unspoken nobility aimed at sending the audience out with a lump...