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...socially and biologically at loose ends, increases toward a city's core. And as urbanization increases, the group control of a homogeneous society-symbolized by the U.S. back fence-disappears. Standards of group and personal behavior break down together when the anonymous city dweller has the "liberty" to drift into unconventionality and excess which are frequently the forerunners of mental crackup...
Whether this report is true or not, Trondheim was by last week the chief Allied headache on the Arctic supply route to Russia, where, lately, headaches have grown more splitting. Lengthening daylight gives Nazi aircraft more time for reconnaissance. The southward drift of polar ice pinches the convoy channel dangerously narrow. Last week Germany claimed that the Luftwaffe had sunk a U.S. cruiser of the 9,100-ton Pensacola class and a U.S. destroyer, somewhere between Norway's North Cape and Spitsbergen, had scored hits on two more U.S. destroyers. Another Nazi news-bomb announced the sinking...
...Johnston gave figures, however, to show that all was not lost-provided the English realized the gravity of Scotland's position. In 1942, 16 new war industries were granted Scotland. His committee, he said, hoped to corner more, while working at the same time against the drift of industrialism to the south. On the Scottish domestic front he urged more attention to hill shepherding, herring fishing and de-velopment of hydroelectric power...
...give anything in the world," said Nelson wistfully not long ago, "if just one night I could finish a leisurely dinner, walk out on the street, drift in the crowds, footloose, drop in a movie when it caught...
...beat the drums for savings bonds, Buy-a-Bomber campaigns, the immediate relief of MacArthur. But at the same time the Russians and the New Deal sent up the Hearst blood pressure even more than the Axis did. It took no expert at reading between lines to see the drift in an editorial on the Riom trials of Daladier and Léon Blum: "[The trials] may be the beginning of a new era of justice and of peace on this earth. . . . It is surely time that the men responsible for the murder and misery of war should be tried...