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...leave in Los Angeles, I had opportunity to investigate the zoot suit feud [TIME, June 21]. . . . I could find nothing to ""distinguish the behavior of our soldiers from the behavior of Nazi storm troop thugs that roved Berlin in mobs bent on beating up outnumbered non-Aryans...
...easy to distinguish those who had used our grenades. Their chests and stomachs were both gone. Our grenades, which probably accounted for half the Japs we killed on Attu, carry a much more powerful charge. The Jap grenade is vastly inferior. Some Jap bodies were found beside three or four duds, indicating that the victim had had an exasperating time killing himself...
...spectacular ways: battle royal (to stress individual combat), reconnaissance fighting (to stress group combat). In the battle royal, watched over by steel-helmeted instructors to see that no one is maimed, two platoons are pitted against each other-the members of one platoon fighting in undershirts to distinguish them from their opponents. In reconnaissance fighting, a squad, hands in gloves, is sent out on reconnaissance. Somewhere along the way two other squads, armed with gloves, ambush the patrol...
...Trainers of the famed Seeing Eye Dogs take canine color blindness for granted. The dogs' apparent ability to distinguish traffic signals is really due to the dogs' alertness to traffic sounds and movement...
...photoelectric spectrophotometer, so sensitive it can measure the light thrown on a human hand by a candle a mile away, is now used to standardize camouflage colors for the Army. This electronic device can distinguish two million variations of color, including some invisible shades...