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Boxing the Compass. In Baltimore, after a judge told three brawlers he would dismiss charges if they got out of town, Defendant North went west, Easterly headed south, but Southern paid his fine and stayed...
Lord Rothermere's Conservative Daily Mail flatly said that MacArthur had been "badly supported" in Korea. "In the face of conflicting orders . . . from all points of the compass, what is he to do?" Lord Beaverbrook, once described admiringly by Winston Churchill as a "true, foulweather friend," took even stronger issue with the MacArthur-baiters. Said his Daily Express: "Whatever General MacArthur does is wrong ... If he refuses a truce to the Chinese Reds, that is bad. If he offers a truce, that is equally...
...When the lifeboat hits the water, a radio operator in the aircraft starts the boat's engine by remote control, then steers it toward the rafts or swimmers. Once on board, the survivors can talk with the plane over a two-way radio. The operator sets their gyro compass on a course that will take them to the nearest land. The boat has fuel for 800 miles; more fuel and water can be dropped. Early in 1952, says the Air Force, all its A-3 lifeboats will be equipped as radio-controlled taxis...
...these inner relationships, the bursting of stem and branches from this 'World-Seed' resolved the whole conception into a treelike form, suggesting continuing growth. Thus, this piece is really a 'World-Tree,' its four branches reaching to the four main points of the compass, its trunk in the earth and its extremities still growing, unconcluded, in space. It is related also to those objects in our modern landscape, like antennae, which make the quickest communication with all points of the earth; and it is based on the steel technology of our time as surely as were...
...York editors considered the AP story good enough to run it the next morning, although it was by then more than two days old. Only one left in "purportedly;" it was the "Daily Compass," a newspaper usually far less conservative...