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...Citadel...
High in the western interior lies Bandung, the Indies Army's main citadel and headquarters. From its suburban gardens, its well-guarded bastions, civilians and soldiers can see the great, three-cratered volcano of Tangkoeban Prahu ("The Overturned Boat"). (Volcanoes-some dangerously alive, some long dead-rib the narrow island from end to end.) The city of Bandung lies in a flat-bottomed bowl in the hills. And "the thunderstorms roll about the hills all the afternoons, retired Dutch officers roll about the golf courses all the mornings, tanks and machine-gun carriers roll across the fields . . . and practice...
...sudden fact of war caught Hollywood with its make-up off. Before the first blackout of Los Angeles, the citadel of cinemadom camouflaged its feelings with a vigorous regurgitation of gags. The blackout somehow changed things; everybody wanted to do something to help...
...inchers) cut into the hills' rocks, British, Canadian, Indian and native troops. The colony's only good airfield is on the Kowloon side, was seized by the Japanese. Hong Kong's defenders always planned to hold until relief could reach them from Singapore. But this citadel, too, was under attack, for its existence...
...freshman ranks one flashy newcomer: Halfback Ralph Hill, who lopes like a gazelle and can stop on a dime. With Hill and a little shuffling of old hands, Blaik, a strict disciplinarian and master strategist, came up with a winning combination. So far, Army has blasted The Citadel, Virginia Military Institute, Yale and Columbia. Practically the same Army team won only one game last year-a 20-to-19 victory over little Williams...