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...Joyce '42, of Senior House and Gloucester, House Chairman, and other members of the Network will explain the operation of the broadcasting apparatus and conduct typical broadcasts at intervals throughout the day. A group of hostesses, under Miss Mary Whittier of Dover, will also be on hand to show the studios and welcome the guests. Visitors will be afforded an opportunity to make souvenir recordings of their voices at a nominal charge for discs...
...attackers tried again to take the place by an assault on the southwestern rim of the defense perimeter. Nazi tanks accomplished a small breakthrough. To the desert's awful heat German shock troops added that of flamethrowers, but the answering heat of British artillery exploded the flame-throwing apparatus, stopped the tanks, and squeezed the breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which could fire outwards only, so that after a breakthrough...
Then His Majesty was accorded a privilege open to very few people besides Kings and Commanders: he saw the Air Force's hypersensitive spotting apparatus laid out before him. A large force of German planes was over England. The main attack, as it had been for six previous successive nights, seemed to be developing over Liverpool, one of the few British ports to be operating at nearly full capacity. Experts explained to the King how the night fighters operated. The Beaus went to the scene of action to try to get the planes coming in. In this Operations Room...
...firmest representatives of the New Deal are not Roosevelt or the other conspicuous 'New Deal politicians,' but the younger group of administrators, experts, technicians, bureaucrats, who have been finding places throughout the state apparatus: not merely those who specialize in political technique, in writing up laws with concealed 'jokers,' in handing Roosevelt a dramatic new idea, but also those who are doing the actual running of the extending government enterprises: in short, managers. These men include some of the clearest-headed of all managers to be found in any country. They are confident and aggressive. Though...
With all the full-dress apparatus of storming-dive-bombers, tanks, massed infantry-the Italians and Germans quickly broke through the first line of Tobruch's defenses, seized "a great number" of artillery emplacements and some prisoners. The British withdrew to a second line of defense, stiffened, and claimed to have stopped the assault...