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Today, the village (which includes the parishes of Offord Cluny and Offord Darcy) has 536 inhabitants, 129 cats, 70 dogs, 275 bicycles, 46 motorcars, 167 radios and 17 TV sets. It has lived through the threat of the Armada, when 15 stalwart citizens went off to war bearing pike, arquebus and sword. The village lost one man during the Boer War, 20 in World War I, four in World...
...aviation it would need to repel an invasion of Western Europe. The U.S., he argued, needs a minimum of 50 full tactical air groups for ground support, 38 interceptor groups for home defense, and 62 groups of long-range strategic bombers, plus fleets of heavy transports. Such an aerial armada would take three years to build, and cost a staggering $96 billion, more than the entire U.S. budget for 1951. To win World War II, he reminded the Senators, the U.S. had an air force of 243 groups...
...Critic" stars Hurd Hatfield as Dangle, the aficionado of the theatre, and Jerry Kilty as Puff, the playwright. This pair mugs and gestures delightfully through a rehearsal of Puff's ludicrous tragedy, "The Spanish Armada...
...play to Sneer, played only adequately by Thayer David, stating quite simply: "It's a rule!" Indeed the rules seem to apply quite aptly to the ordinary drama, though not to Sheridan. For "The Critic" sweeps through a duel, a reenactment of the British fleet subduing the Spanish Armada, and a scene in which Nancy Marchand goes mad with her "confidante" Jan Farrand mimicking her exquisitely. In a grand boffola ending Brittania is lowered from the ceiling by a block and tackle. Andrew E. Norman
...target" island. They measured what was left to measure, studied the effects of the blast that had been seen as far as Kwajalein, 375 miles away, made ready to conduct still more tests. Then, after two years of work and two months of grim experiment, the atom armada came home. They had exploded the largest bomb ever...