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Probe Yourself. At Gordonstoun last week, on the bleakly beautiful Morayshire coast of Scotland, 300 youngsters were busy manning coastguard lookouts, spotting forest fires, working at the village smithy, and striving mightily to win badges for moral and physical fitness. Headmaster Hahn is sure that his schools have found William James's "moral equivalent of war." Says Hahn: "One of the mysterious currents making for war ... is the longing of the young to probe their reserves of ... endurance, daring and resourcefulness." One who probed himself: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, onetime Guardian (head boy) of Gordonstoun. At the Hahn...
...population of 125,000,000, Latin America can muster a potential man power of 12,000,000. Fifteen of the 20 countries have air forces. The aggregate Latin-American navy consists of five battleships, six cruisers, 32 destroyers, 20 submarines, a scattering of gunboats, minelayers, river-patrol boats and coastguard cutters. But only Argentina, Brazil and Chile can patrol their own shores. . Closest Latin-American country to the U. S. is Mexico, whose west-coast ports and Tampico on the Gulf are possible spots of invasion. Its first line of defense is the U. S. Navy, for Mexico has only...
...there will be times when you will think you must have dug it out of the attic. Novelists nowadays usually let the reader get acquainted with their characters gradually, naturally, by seeing and hearing them in action. Author Robert Smythe Hichens, 68, who wrote his first novel, The Coastguard's Secret, in 1881 and his most popular one, The Garden of Allah, in 1905, likes to lay his puppets in a row, dissect them body & soul in advance. In The Paradine Case he takes most of 332 prolix pages for this job. But the reader who gets through these...
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