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...plus one, said Huebner, counterattacking Germans on the Normandy beachhead had picked up a complete copy of the U.S. V Corps' invasion plan. If the Germans on the spot had known what to do about it, he said, "the entire outcome of the war might have been different." As it was, the document took a month traveling leisurely up through channels to Field Marshal von Rundstedt's headquarters. "By that time," said Huebner, "the plan made a nice souvenir...
...Detroit's city rooms, Toy (known as "Headline Harry") replied that a press-card holder "gets in not only to fires, but to waterworks and the like. There are methods of internal attack. In the event of a war with Russia, attacks internally will be followed by a beachhead in Detroit...
...week's end, Toy seemed ready to retire from his beachhead. "I haven't said," he pussyfooted, "that I would not give out press cards if they do not sign...
...Part I of the longest poem in Jeffers' new book, a boy killed on a Pacific beachhead furiously reassumes his corpse ("I poured my soul with sickening pain into my body again") and returns to a California ranch, there to terrify his patriotic father and adulterous mother, taunting them with blasphemies, cursing the war they sent him to, trying to make horrible love to her, and eventually killing his father and his mother's lover. The force of this poem comes from the suggestion that a soldier foully killed in the insane violence of modern combat would retain...
...Corp. and Shell Union Oil Corp. made token bids, and Independent walked off with the prize. One oilman said simply: "The whole industry stood on the sidelines and cheered." For Independent is an important face-saver-token "proof" that the U.S. does not maintain its strategic Middle East beachhead for the sole benefit of the companies that dominate the U.S. oil industry...