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Toward Rabaul. The strain that night-the darkness, the tense waiting, the ban on talk, the weird jungle sounds-made the toughest leathernecks say they never wanted to go through it again. Japs got close enough to be smelled. Within 50 feet of one U.S. foxhole, 16 grenades fell. Once Sergeant Azine, dozing, was unintentionally kicked by a buddy; he snapped awake, grabbed his fellow Corpsman by the throat, had his trench knife poised for a thrust before he realized...
...weird group of patrons with which all hotels, especially tall ones, are afflicted are the suicides. Dr. Ellsworth thinks he has seen more suicides than any other doctor-in peacetime there were sometimes three or four a week. The suicides rarely used firearms, usually jumped out of windows or took overdoses of sleeping powders. One room clerk is said to have asked registering guests: "Do you want a room to sleep in or to jump from...
Rockets v. Rockets. Many new weapons come from the weird and wonderful union of rocket propulsion, aerodynamics and electronics. The rocket principle, in effect giving missiles a second kick after they have been fired from guns or mortars, is also being applied to heavy aircraft (if they can be shot off the ground, they can save gas for longer flights with heavier loads...
...dinner. But this, too has changed until now we consider our selves lucky if we can scan the front page without a feeling of impending disaster. The bright and cheerful pages of the New Yorker are neglected, as we dedicate the entirety of every evening of the solution of weird impossible financial situation...
...week many a suburban Johannesburger twitched and turned in his last few minutes of troubled sleep, awoke alarmed at the unmistakable rhythm of hoarse-voiced jungle chanting. Early risers discovered the source: 20,000 black men, women & children, packed gutter to gutter on the Pretoria road, marching to wild, weird Bantu songs and war cries...