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...first Russia scarcely seemed to notice Winston Churchill's historic challenge to Soviet expansion. Then suddenly, eight days later, the Moscow radio blared forth. Joseph Stalin, in an interview with Pravda, made one of the bitterest peace time attacks by one statesman upon another...
After the election came carnival. Posters blaring announcements of fiesta dances encroached on the tattered billboard images of Perón and Tamborini. Argentines who could afford it rushed off to the villas and casino of Mar del Plata. Yet Argentina, recovering slowly from the calmest election day-and bitterest campaign-in its history, was hardly in a carnival mood. It was still dazed. Juan Pueblo, the man on the Buenos Aires street corner, contemplating the strange, post-election calm, said "Parece raro-Seems funny...
...World War I the Russian revolution posed a dilemma which both the revolutionists and their bitterest enemies held inescapable: the Extreme Right or the Extreme Left. For two decades of mounting political violence, Europe's people, most of whom wanted neither extreme, were drawn, duped or beaten toward one or the other...
...Long Trail. For General Eichelberger and his Eighth Army, Tokyo was the end of one of the bitterest, hardest fought trails of the Pacific War. For the General it began three years and 4,000 roundabout miles away, in the blood and mud of a wretched copra settlement called Buna on the north coast of New Guinea...
Known officially as Fido (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation), the system that kept 15 British fields active during last winter's bitterest fighting consists of an installation of horizontal pipes laid parallel to each side of a landing strip. Gasoline is forced through and out of the perforated pipes with tremendous force. When ignited (by men running alongside the pipes with torches), a wall of flame roars from the jets with the noise and smoke of a forest fire. The intense heat first vaporizes the fuel in the upper (feeder) pipe, causing the smoke to subside, then burns...