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Bulges and Wedges. The wedges were the crux of the Americans' recovery from Rundstedt's initial successes. They were also by this week the crux of U.S. hopes to pinch off the bulges. The wedges had been held, in great part, by small units of U.S. troops who kept their heads in the first break, stood their ground, died rather than retreat. There were infantry men in foxholes who fought until tanks ground over them...
...have a gripe. Its crux is the problem of returning servicemen...
...Crux of the Chicago discovery is the use of ultraviolet rays strong enough to kill the germs but not strong enough to ruin their ability to create immunity when injected into a living body. To accomplish this, a special lamp had to be developed (details are being kept secret by the Office of Scientific Research and Development). Old-type ultraviolet lamps take so long to kill germs that they destroy immunizing power as well...
...section of official opinion in the U.S. holds that Japan's Emperor Hirohito should be spared from propaganda and other attack, preserved as the postwar ruler of defeated Japan (see p. 19). Crux of this argument: the Emperor was against war with the U.S., resisted the actions of his war lords...
...Crux of Chief Justice Gwyer's decision was that numbers of prisoners in India may have been arrested on the slimmest of evidence. He ruled: "There is no power to detain a person because the Government thinks that he may do something hereafter or because it thinks that he is a man likely to do it; there must be suspicions based on reasonable grounds that he is actually about...