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...West there was a problem right off the bat. The capitulation of the French deprived Britain of important ports at Toulon, Oran, Bizerte, Algiers, Corsica; and the laying down of French arms left the flanks of the British in the Eastern basin bare. Accordingly a British squadron put two battleships and a battle cruiser out of action at Mers-el-Kebir (Oran) on July 3. This brilliantly executed attack was led by Vice Admiral Sir James Fownes ("Slim") Somerville, whose knowledge of naval traditions is indicated by the fact that his hobby is the highly technical one of making ship...
Main Event. At 12:30 the real show began. Warning was given of a squadron of dive bombers-lean, bat-winged Junkers 87B, the first to appear against the British in the Mediterranean-streaking in from the north at 18,000 feet. In an instant the Illustrious was achurn. Over the loudspeaker system brassed the marine bugler's warning, the boatswain's call: "All hands to action stations." Gun crews jumped to their pompoms. Pilots raced for their planes. Down the deck roared the first flight of Fairey Fulmar fighters, bouncing up into the sky. Behind them...
...about a century and a half scientists have known that blinded bats could fly without collisions, but that deafened bats could not. To get exact data on the bat technique, Biologists Robert Galambos and Donald Griffin collected specimens from caves in the Berkshires, put them through their paces in rooms hung with wires like a balloon barrage, with special supersonic recorders. In finding out what prevents bat crackups, the scientists did not mutilate the creatures, used blindfolds, ear plugs, mouth gags. Last week Galambos & Griffin reported that the pitch of the bat signal is around 50,000 vibrations a second...
...Historian Knollenberg's voice is not always dispassionate, this is due to the fact that his book is less an onslaught on Washington than a book-bat heaved in a historians' squabble. Conspicuous on the receiving end is Historian John C. Fitzpatrick, editor of the Bicentennial edition of Washington's works...
Dumpy, round-faced Little John, now 69, learned his soldiering in Germany; lean, bat-eared Alexander, 57, learned his at France's Ecole Superieure de Guerre. Both suffered the pangs of Greece's sorry war with Turkey in 1922. Out of that defeat came their resolution to do better another time. Often the loser in one war wins the next (witness France after 1870, Germany after 1918). As Chief of Staff, General Papagos saw to it that Greece's 18-month compulsory training for all males between 21 and 50 was no child's play. King...