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Examination by Practice. Eventually, cadets will be tossed a 40-lb. pack. They will be trucked off 30 or 40 miles, given a compass and told to find their way home...
...Cardinal Pacelli came face to face with the event which was to climax his ecclesiastical career. Pope Pius XI died. From all points of the compass Cardinals rushed to Rome to elect his successor. Cardinal Pacelli personally wired the Italian Line to ask that the Neptunia make an extra fast trip so that the Latin American Cardinals would arrive for the voting. In his haste one Cardinal was compelled to fly from Portugal over the battle lines of the Spanish Civil War. For the first time in history U.S. Cardinals also were present at the conclave to elect a Pope...
...influence of these 'clubs' . . . prevents the discovery of the fact that the limit of intellectual effort is greater than six minds* can compass...
...night Rangers are often summoned from their tents and Niesen huts, sent off through the eternal rain on compass marches over unmarked, blacked-out terrain. On these marches they wade creeks, slosh through mires, sleep wet and muddy on open ground without bedroll or tent. They live off the country, learn how to kill a sheep by cracking its neck with a quick twist (so that its bleat will not betray them), how to butcher it and start cooking within seven minutes...
...daily. Lips can be moistened, the mouth rinsed with sea water, but "there is no doubt that large draughts of sea water cause death and even small amounts may prejudice a man's chance of survival on a long voyage. . . . The liquid contained in the lifeboat's compass should never be drunk: it is poisonous...