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Untried Weapon. Almost as a reflex of such dismal ideas, the question whether poison gas should be used against Japan rose again in the U.S. press. Among military thinkers, the consensus was that gas would save Allied lives if poured into cave defenses in the enemy's home islands. However, the final decision did not lie with military thinkers, but in the realm of politics and public morals. The U.S. has a great and valued reputation throughout the world as a civilized, humane nation ; in the last analysis the people themselves would have to decide whether to abandon that...
When the division moved to Luzon, there were new terms: for every live Jap, one case of beer and a three-day pass to Manila. Sergeant Brown took a prisoner in a cave by persuading him to discard his hara-kiri grenade and come out. Then Brown picked up his beer and went to Manila...
...Kleitman, an expert on human body temperature who once lived in a cave to prove that habits can change body heat's diurnal rhythm (TIME, July 18, 1938), concludes: "On the basis of occasional data ... on many subjects . . . and through an analysis of multiple readings on two ... it appears that attending motion picture shows . . . is by no means relaxation in the physiological sense. . . . It remains to be seen whether the collective change in the body temperature of a preview audience can be used to predict the box-office success of a film...
Charlie moved nearer the dam, firing again & again: He saw four Jap huts half hidden by boulders on a hill across the river. He fired four rounds, demolished four huts. At the very end Charlie Oliver spoiled his record. He saw a small cave far up the opposite cliff, fired twice and missed both times. That brought his day's score down to 28 hits in 30 shots. When he reached the dam Charlie said that next time he wanted a bazooka with a sight...
...political thought apparently never entered his head. He was born into a wealthy family, composed 60 pieces before he was eleven, was famed throughout Europe before he was 20. He became a musical Marco Polo who brought back from Scotland a Scotch Symphony, from the Hebrides Fingal's Cave, from Italy an Italian Symphony. His merits as a composer have been argued for a century. If his capricious music was not always profound, his mastery of technique sometimes concealed the fact. He was an organist who made Europe aware of Johann Sebastian Bach, and his position as a musicologist...