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Sickly Mood. A wider, clearer understanding that the postwar system proposed for the world was in fact a strong-arm system, recognizing and resting on Big Three power, would have been all to the good. But last week's happenings made only for cynicism, doubt, and further misunderstanding...
...routine and red tape, Patton habitually asks and gets the impossible from his supply men. During the winter bog-down on the Saar front, the Third's tanks floundered in the greasy mud. Someone recommended "duck bills"-metal flanges to be welded to tank treads to give them wider grip. Patton tried to get them, "through channels," and finally got 168 duck bills- enough to equip one tank. Next day four companies of the Third's ordnance mechanics, about 1,000 men, were set to work on scrapped treads and other material. Patton wanted duck bills. His order...
...ancient city of Abydos, the great Temple of Seti I, finished in the reign of Rameses II (1324-1258 B.C.), is settling into the soft subsoil while cracks in its walls grow dangerously wider. On the Island of Philae, close to the Aswan dam and artificial lake, the Kiosk of Trajan (1st Century B.C.), in recent years so submerged that often only its upper half could be seen, has collapsed completely. On the same island, the Temple of Isis is in such danger that Egyptians have planned to move it to a safer spot...
...sleek, V-shaped hull, the 45,000-ton Midway has enough electric power to light up a city of 1,000,000, enough steel for 25,000 autos. It is wider and almost half again as heavy as the Essex class carriers, now the first line craft of the U.S. fleets. But the tin-hatted, horn-handed men who built the Midway are accustomed to superlatives. They have long bragged that: 1) Newport News is the biggest U.S. shipyard; 2) its sharp-eyed, terrier-like boss, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, 72, is by all odds the best builder of warships...
...cadaver scarcity was growing acute even before the war. For dissection, modern medical schools have to depend almost entirely on derelict, unclaimed bodies. Wartime prosperity, a long-range decline in pauperism and the wider spread of Social Security payments (which include funeral expenses) have cut this source of supply. Said Dr. Curl last week: "Another four years and we may not have any cadavers for medical teaching...