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...marines continued training under live ammunition, a practice which the Army discarded but recently resumed. This year they rehearsed an amphibious demonstration, "Operation Demon III," for the Army's Command & General Staff College. One of the 1st's companies ran off a cold-weather landing exercise in Alaska; a regiment put on an airlift assault on cactus-covered San Nicolas Island off the California coast. If & when the time comes for the U.S. units to break out of the beachhead in Korea, Craig's great store of amphibious know-how will come in handy for assault landings...
...sulky, turned the rest of the job over to Driver Clint Hodgins, 37, who had flown from Manhattan for the race. At the start, Proximity spurted to the rail slot, was unchallenged until the final stretch turn of the two-lap mile heat. There, the 1948 Hambletonian winner, Demon Hanover, started pressing. Hodgins felt Demon Hanover coming, whipped Proximity hard. She outlasted the bid, won by a head...
Before the second heat of the race (at a mile-and-a-sixteenth), Verhurst was asked whether he had bet on his horse. Said Verhurst: "Hell, no. She's liable to lose." This time Verhurst was right. Proximity lost by a neck to Demon Hanover, won $1,500 second place money. Verhurst seemed almost pleased: "There, see, I told you she'd lose." It was Proximity's second defeat in 14 heats this year...
Count to Seven. To exorcise such a demon engram, the dianetics patient lolls on a couch or easy chair in a dimly lit room. The auditor says: "When I count from one to seven your eyes will close." He keeps counting to seven until the patient's eyes close. (The patient, says Hubbard, is still awake but in "reverie.") In a typical procedure, the auditor may next command: "Let us return to your fifth birthday." The patient's mind is then supposed to slip back along its "time track" to that birthday. Having "returned," he "relives" the experience...
...fighter pilots in the vaster air battles of World War II, most Americans, at the mention of combat in the skies, still instinctively remembered Rickenbacker's name first. There were also thousands of grey-haired citizens who remembered him as a helmeted and goggled speed demon of the U.S. automobile race tracks...