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...Caribbean bases are vital to U.S. defense in both oceans. While the Caribbean islands are Andy Andrews' ramparts, his citadel is The Ditch. For within their protective arc lies the Panama Canal-key to U.S. strategy in the Atlantic and the Pacific, certain target of any invader. Example: a sudden blow at the Canal from the Atlantic side when a big part of the U.S. Fleet is in the Atlantic-as it is nowadays-might prevent the rapid reinforcement of naval forces remaining in the Pacific...
...Four weeks: The baby acts like a tiny tree ape, lashing his arms, clenching his fists. He lies mostly on his side with his head turned, one arm extended, the other flexed. He turns his head and eyes through an arc of 90° to look at rings and rattles, listen to a bell. When the doctor tries to pull him up, his head sags back...
Bastille Day passed in France this week without a single parade by Frenchmen. Plans for a parade in Paris were canceled by the Germans, who five days earlier had staged an impressive parade of their own, down the Champs-Elysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde through a double line of stone-silent onlookers. Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain had ordered those of his countrymen whom he governs to observe France's onetime No. 1 holiday as a day "without labor" devoted to thinking of "our dead...
Nature's Pincers. Between the Arctic and the Black Sea lie 3,000 miles of Russian border (see map, p. 24)-as long as the U.S.-Canadian border. The long miles bulge in a great convex arc-incipient giant pincers against Russia. It was to push these pincers as far as possible from Moscow and the industrial area of European Russia that the U.S.S.R. had grabbed buffer areas every time Germany had pushed over a nation on the Soviet border...
...German opening attack struck at every sector of the arc. Only as the attack developed could the main drives be singled out with assurance...