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...Republican Senator Owen Brewster, speaking from hearsay after a tour of western Europe, said that Germany's professional and bourgeois crust was being liquidated in the Russian zone...
...miao in the 7th Century A.D.), which are much like those outlined in the Western world's Hippocratic oath, Dr. Chang treats poor patients as carefully as the rich, charges them nothing. His middle-class patients pay about $100,000 Chinese ($200 American) a day. His upper-crust patients pay in largesse of the realm-fine furs and such succulent delicacies as sharks' fins and bears' paws...
Skier's Swoops. But after the armor had broken through this last crust, it had taken off in wide swoops over all the great road network. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s famed 4th Armored Division's Combat Commands A and B, led by the fabulously tough team of Lieut. Colonel Creighton Abrams Jr. and Major Harold Cohen, are expert in this type of war. In operations such as this penetration toward the German heart, the armor moves like a cross-country skier, sliding swiftly down roads, diagnosing the terrain on the fly. If an obstacle...
Shapley now joins the ranks of Edison, Marconi, Orville Wright, Einstein, and Charles F. Kettering, who have also received the medal. At present, shapley is working with galaxies, star clusters, and astronomical data on the formation of the earth's crust...
This week Allied arms were indeed prosperous. The crust of German resistance behind the Rhine was not yet broken in telling depth, but it was crumbling under the swift knifings of U.S. armies and the grinding crunch of Monty's might...