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...problems of peace in Europe. One year ago last week the first three buzz-bombs fell on England. They injured 52 people, killed eight. They meant that Britain in a military (and hence in a political) sense had almost ceased to be an island, that the North Sea, Dover Strait and the English Channel, which for centuries had served England "in the office of a wall, or as a moat defensive to a house," had for purpose of war shriveled to a trickle. Henceforth, unless a defense as effective as rocket bombs could be developed, Britain was within shattering range...
Favorite drugs were "mercurials, calomel, opium, niter, Glauber's salts, Dover's powders, jalap, Peruvian bark-and by the 1840s, quinine" in heroic doses. One doctor reported a patient who took so much calomel that his teeth fell out, then the upper and lower jawbones came out "in the form of horse shoes." One treatment for the ague involved putting the patient in a draft between two cabins, stripping off his clothes, pouring cold water over him until he had a "pretty powerful smart chance of a shake...
Robert E. Rayle, Atlanta, Georgia; Robert B. Ross, Jacksonville, Florida; Kendall G. Russell, Worcester; Peter B. Scamans, Salem; Ralph M. Swanson, Winchester; Walter H. Trumbull, Jr., Weston; Mark Tuttle, Dover, New Hampshire; George A. Van Pelt, Sellersburg, Indiana; Vincent H. Vicario, Providence; Norman S. Walker, Jr., Peapack, New Jersey; Rolf C. Walther, Roselle, New Jersey; Francis deS. Woidich, Cambridge; and Richard W. Zamore, Montclair, New Jersey...
...long-withheld story of an engineering triumph that made the invasion victories possible. Early in 1943, at Quebec, the Allied chiefs of staff had decided upon the plan: breakwaters, man-made harbors, pierings for two ports as big as Dover, to be set up on the Normandy beaches. Winston Churchill had given one order: "Let me have the best solution. Don't argue the matter. The difficulties will argue themselves...
Recently the Army Air Forces released to Bell 450 new ear plugs that reduce the racket but let the human voice through when the riveting stops. Last week the new chief of the Bell plant, Colonel Carl Cover (rhymes with Dover), found that their use at Marietta had brought about a marked reduction in nerve strain and fatigue. What noise does come through the plug sounds like the dull beating of a heavy surf...