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...Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller. who preached from his Dahlem pulpit, too often for his own safety, against the false gods of totalitarianism. He was thin but tanned and in good spirits...
Into last week's chorus of heady news from Europe and hopeful words from San Francisco came a thin, somber note from U.S. public opinion. It came from a cross-section of adult civilians buttonholed by the University of Denver's National Opinion Research Center. The poll question: do you expect the U.S. to get in another war within the next 25 years...
...cestus in punch after armed punch on the slogging road across North Africa, in the invasions of Sicily and Italy. Black-haired, chunky, 34-year-old Colonel William Orlando Darby, who had organized the Rangers in Northern Ireland during the anxious summer of 1942, stayed with them through thick & thin...
...Army Signal Corps: a sound recording system for sending spoken messages by carrier pigeon. The recording is on film, so thin that a 36,000-word message (two hours' dictation) can be carried by one pigeon. The film is edible, so that it can be eaten by its receiver to prevent its capture by the enemy...
...women go where the bulldozers have not gone and the trucks cannot go. They carry their burdens on their backs, holding them with thin, woven bamboo head straps. Each woman takes up to 50 pounds, one-fourth the load saddled on pack horses on the same trails. But there are six times as many Igorot women available as pack horses...