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China's economy is more than twice the size of India's, and Indian officials are sensitive about the gap. When the two armies hold twice-yearly meetings on the border in Arunachal, the Indian officers arrive in powerful four-wheel-drive vehicles, which are required for climbing the rough mountain roads on the Indian side of the border. Their Chinese counterparts cruise up the smooth highways on the other side in luxury sedans - a detail that Indian-army officers privately admit pains them. In 1962 it was China's superior roads and bridges that allowed its army to move...
...tanks were DD (for duplex-drive) Shermans, improbable vehicles specially rigged with flotation devices and propellers. They looked as weird as their descriptions sound. They floated, barely, but the sea that morning was heavier than it had been during training, and 5,000 yards turned out to be too far. Twenty-seven of the 32 DD Shermans sank. (You can hear Tom Hanks yelling about this in the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan: "We got no DD tanks on the beach!") Of the five tanks that survived, three made it because their launching mechanisms had jammed and they were...
...Crimson kept the drive going with key plays from Winters and Scales to make it to the red zone, where Gordon stepped up again...
Harvard capitalized on its opponent’s mistakes and took advantage of some timely penalties to convert the turnover. After a 62-yard drive, Scales ran in the ball from one yard out to make the score...
...Dartmouth put together a 63-yard drive of its own and scored its first touchdown on a 12-yard pass to Tanner Scott with 17 seconds left on the clock. This brought the Big Green within two scores of the Crimson before halftime...