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Like antagonists retiring from the battlefield to regroup, France's National Assembly and Premier Mendès-France went off last week on short vacations. For Mendès the vacation was, typically, an opportunity to get work done. Chronically unable to leave his job behind him, Mendès booked reservations for himself and his pretty wife Lily at the Italian resort town of Positano, but then loaded up the schedule with an imposing list of appointments-an audience with Pope Pius XII, a meeting with Italy's Premier Mario Scelba and, on the way home...
...mechanical device for quickly laying barbed wire on a battlefield. Using present hand methods, it takes nine soldiers six hours to set up a double-apron entanglement 300 yards long and 10 feet wide...
...evolved a "cellular" -as opposed to the traditional linear-system of offense. It will permit only 2,000 men in an area occupied by 8,000 to 10,000 in World War II. Such dispersion will impose heavy demands on communications, so the Army is developing what it calls "battlefield surveillance." This consists of sonic and electronic detection gear that will instantly track and report coordinates locating the origin of enemy fire. Recording devices could be planted along unprotected fronts to flash to control centers all unusual noises or movements on the ground and in the air. Some...
...tried-for cowardice, and it takes Strang another war to prove his courage. When he finally does, rifle and bayonet in hand, the irony of Fate-and of military life-turns his act of bravery into his undoing: the generals consider him a bad commander for dashing about the battlefield "like a private." Even after the army has bowler-hatted him, human and humorous Scotsman Strang clings to his belief in the Many-Splendoured Thing-his phrase for honor, decency and civilization. British Author Marshall (The White Rabbit, Father Malachy's Miracle) keeps his story moving almost too fast...
...Yale Law has in a sense retreated from its advanced position on the legal battlefield, Harvard has discarded some of its nineteenth century armor for modern, imaginative weapons--weapons resembling Yale's former revolutionary doctrines. Dean Erwin Griswold jokingly says, "Yale talks about it; we do it." As he told the entering class in 1954, law "has deep roots in the past. It presents a continuity of development which must be understood if the law of the present is to be mastered. But it also has a flexibility, a capability for growth and development, which is as much a part...