Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Global Pair. Occasionally the compact list of morning callers includes the spare, incisive man who, beyond all others in the Army except Douglas MacArthur, has caught the public eye: Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, Chief of the Services of Supply. Among the men around the Chief of Staff, General Somervell bears a distinctive brand. Brilliant, dashing, he depends strongly upon picked subordinates of whom he requires the same luminous qualities. Quiet, monotonal George Marshall requires great competence, but he does not demand brilliance; he knows how to use the human tools at hand, considering it part of his duty...
...stories are all worth reading. Top honors go equally to Curtis Thomas's "Ascent" and Doug Woolf's "The Knifeman." Both are compact, sensitively chiselled pieces of work, relaying on restraint and carefully prepared surprise for their effects. Thomas accomplishes the feat of writing a fantasy in a realistic style. A too conscious attempt at atmosphere occasionally swamps Albert Friedman's "Carnival," while David Hessey's "Launching" sacrifices a powerful theme to occasionally slip-shod treatment. Cecil Schneer makes a heroic attempt to get inside a converted isolationist by reducing him through pain to his Freudian common denominator...
...level.* The few ravines dividing the plain are knee-deep brooks. There are no forests such as help to screen Moscow. The Nazis had merely to cross the plain between two rivers. Sprawling along the Volga for 25-miles, Stalingrad's shoestring outline provides not even a compact area to defend. A break-through at any point could cut the defending forces...
...long will this go on? Ten thousand billion years more, says the University of Chicago's astrophysicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, whose book, Principles of Stellar Dynamics, has just been published (University of Chicago Press; $5). Beginning with a compact, enormously dense mass of some eight billion degrees Centigrade (TIME, June 1), the Milky Way galaxy has been expanding for three billion years, will continue to expand for at least 9,997 billion more. By then it should be completely relaxed, the stars will all have the same velocity, and will begin to slip away from the galaxy like molecules...
...Continental has about 10,000 employes, it is the No. 1 maker of 440 h.p. air-cooled radial tank engines, ships thousands of them each month to Chrysler, American Locomotive, other tank builders. At another plant, workers piece together hundreds of 275-h.p. radials for training planes, scores of compact "Red Seal" engines for trucks, busses, mining equipment. Reese spent $3,100,000 on betterments last year, is spending $700,000 this year. Meanwhile he is hard at work testing a huge, 2,000-h.p. liquid-cooled engine designed for the mammoth cargo planes now planned by many U.S. aircraft...