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...Skeleton-thin (760 mi. long, 30 to 150 mi. wide) Baja California, like the west coast of Mexico proper, has no adequate Pacific defenses. Its once bootleg-whiskey-rich northern town of Ensenada is a scant 8 1 motor miles from the U.S. naval base at San Diego. The area is extremely vulnerable, despite its deserts and mountains...
Everywhere the carolers would walk slowly past lighted candles, singing the old familiar songs, in the thin voices of the young, sometimes off-key. And as Christmas Eve ended, there would come the solemn, beautiful midnight Masses of the Roman Catholic Church...
...hitch: how long could it last? How long before shortage materials became no materials, before 40-hour week men cracked under 60-70 hour weeks, before machines pounding 160 hours weekly almost fall apart? As maintenance declines, as overtime mounts, as skilled labor and management are spread thin, as general-purpose tools are used for special-purpose tasks, and as subcontracting brings in more & more small, marginal and obsolete factories, it is likely that U.S. industrial efficiency will decline. But it is certain that output will soar to levels which, a year ago, would have been considered astronomical...
Rain and bombs pelted the island of Hong Kong, from whose peak this picture was taken. Hong Kong (lower foreground) and Kowloon (across the water) are the ragged end of the thin red line of Empire. From their Victorian mansions on the hillside, Britons looked out, as their predecessors had for 100 years, on the red and grey hills in the distance beyond which lies China, and on the masts of the myriad ships that make Hong Kong the sixth greatest port on earth...
...Some aristocratic Japanese have thin, aquiline noses, narrow faces and, except for their eyes, look like Caucasians. > Japanese are hesitant, nervous in conversation, laugh loudly at the wrong time. > Japanese walk stiffly erect, hard-heeled. Chinese, more relaxed, have an easy gait, sometimes shuffle...