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...docks in two New England ports last week, weird green-painted boats lay shrouded in secrecy. Yard workmen swarmed along their bulging sides, finishing up their hulls, cramming their innards full of deadly equipment. One bore the name Trigger, the other the name Tang. They were the first of six new, fast attack submarines built for the U.S. Navy...
...kado. The unmistakable political tenor of MacArthur's speeches drew quick fire from Oklahoma's trigger-happy Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr. Said he: "If MacArthur's not a candidate for President, there's not a steer in Texas. The Mac-kado rides again!" Most everybody else seemed to take the general's own disclaimers at face value: before Congress, he had referred to himself as "in the fading twilight of life"; in Houston, asked if he would be a candidate for President, he replied, "Emphatically no." What was plainly clear was MacArthur...
...foot soldier is fixed in a succession of moments that make captions superfluous (Duncan uses none). To capture such moments, Duncan had to become, in effect, a front-line soldier. Only in that way could he get close enough to photograph the grenade in flight, the finger squeezing the trigger, the first instant of surprised shock of the wounded...
...present British Socialist government who represent a minority, not a majority, of the British nation. Every Britisher of intelligence is aware that were it not for the courage and generous strength of the U.S., the whole world would be already under the serfdom of Russia . . . The prayers and trigger-fingers of every man who cherishes a hope for the present or a dream for the future are solidly with...
...mission had an unofficial function which U.S. military authorities did not find amusing: espionage in the U.S. zone. U.S. authorities finally found the excuse they had been seeking to send the Soviet mission packing. Last month, a trigger-happy, tommygun-toting Russian soldier had killed a U.S. corporal who was on night patrol in Vienna's international zone. When the Russians refused to cooperate with the U.S. in an investigation of the case, U.S. High Commissioner Walter J. Donnelly retaliated by giving the mission until June 8 to return to the Soviet zone...