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...Voyage with Sabotage. At Le Havre, the Empire Marshal's heavy derricks were damaged by unknown hands. At St. Nazaire, union workers and longshoremen refused to touch the ship; it was repaired and loaded by French troops. At Marseilles, the Empire Marshal had generator trouble; crewmen noticed that another British ship in the harbor, also bound for Indo-China, had mysterious generator trouble, too. The voyage to Indo-China was trouble-free, but at the mouth of the Mekong River, four hours from Saigon, French soldiers boarded the ship, cleared the decks and set up machine guns. They explained...
Operation Disaster (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International), like all submarine fiction, operates under a handicap. Jules Verne worked out most of the possibilities, and what he overlooked has been overworked since his time. Of all the variations, the plight of crewmen trapped 15 fathoms deep is probably the hardiest, and gets sensitive treatment in this British movie...
...Anderson, kicked out of his job as head of the Air War College for advocating preventive war with Russia (TIME, Sept. 11), got a new assignment: command of the 3750th Technical Training Wing at Wichita Falls, Texas, which turns out aircraft mechanics, hydraulic specialists, riggers, armorers, and other ground crewmen, has nothing to do with global strategy...
...Through Newton, Scully met a mysterious "Dr. Gee," who does similar feats by detecting "magnetic waves" (which do not exist) with a magnetron (a radio transmitter tube, not a detection device). Flying saucers, says Dr. Gee (quoted by Scully), travel among the planets by magnetism. Their 3½-ft. crewmen have perfect teeth with no cavities. For food they carry little wafers. One wafer was dunked in a gallon of water. "It swelled up and overflowed. It was fed to guinea pigs and they thrived on it." On another memorable occasion, Dr. Gee saw several little men hop into...
...betrayed the slightest sign of the milkshaky unpreparedness that enveloped the occupation troops of Germany and Japan. The Strategic Air Command (known to the Air Force as SAC) was a $310 million-a-year business, a top-priority task force with 1,100 planes, some 60,000 pilots, crewmen and groundmen. For 22 rugged months Curt LeMay had been holding them all to a relentless, competitive training schedule. With an impersonal assortment of charts and graphs -his "numbers racket," he called them -he kept a sharp, hazel-eyed watch on everything from bombing accuracy (up 500%) to venereal-disease rates...