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...miles from Massacre Bay to Chichagof Harbor, on bleak and barren Attu, are a five-hour walk. Covering this distance in the wake of the Japs' last stand at the end of May, TIME, Correspondent Robert Sherrod gained a gruesome insight into the nature of the enemy in the Pacific. In a two-mile stretch there were 800 Japanese dead. Many of them had killed themselves. Reported Correspondent Sherrod...
...Mile Field is a barren place. Its main building is a grass-roofed, gravel-floored operations hut, where crews are briefed before their combat missions and interviewed when they return. A stilt-legged control tower stands near the upper end, from which take-off and landing signals are blinked to the bomber crews. There are no hangars; planes are serviced, bombed up and repaired in revetments around the field, built up with 20-ft. walls as a protection against bomb blasts. Beyond the flight strip, on both sides, are low, scrub-covered hills...
...barren years of losses to Yale may come to a sudden halt tomorrow when Coach Jay Schaffron's Varsity matmen tangle with the Blue at New Haven. Jimmy Cox's Jayvees will also climax the season in a meet following the Varsity encounter...
...West moved into the East with treaty demands in 1842, when British warships forced the Chinese to mark off five treaty ports. The British also seized the barren island they subsequently built up into the city of Hong Kong. In the War of 1856-60 further treaty ports were seized and the Chinese customs service handed over to foreign administration. After the Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the century, Western nations solidified their hold on further territorial concessions, forced indemnities and loans on China at heavy interest rates. The U.S. sanctimoniously used the "most-favored nation" clause...
Back to U.S. soil came pictures of American graves in French North Africa: barren crosses in endlessly shifting sand, marking the bodies of boys who did not want to die in vain. And from North Africa also came the peculiar shifting tides of political forces bigger than any man, forming patterns whose size was a frightening reminder that human events sometimes move faster than the human spirit can follow...