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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walrus. From the U.S. airports Rhein-Main and Wiesbaden the planes head for Darmstadt. Then they turn northeast for Aschaffenburg and then pick up the Fulda radio range. After Fulda they can fly either on the northeast leg of the Fulda radio range or the southwest Leg of the Tempelhof range. In the Russian zone, just past Eisenach, Hensch's plane flew over one of the Red army training grounds. There were tank tracks through the fields and vehicles lined up next to the forest. Said Hensch: "I'd like to come over here with 20,000 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Precision Operation | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...adopt the new French metric system. Jefferson thought he had a better idea: he wanted a system based on the length of a uniform cylindrical pendulum which, at 45° N. latitude, would move at the rate of one beat a second. Congress did not go for that, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Turn of the Screw | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...know the Third Force has failed. It is evident there can be no stable majority without either the Communists or De Gaulle. We don't want to hand all the power over to either, so we are forced to share it. But De Gaulle has condemned us utterly, and will not share power with us. The Communists are more supple, better tacticians, more like politicians with whom you can make a trade. If we can get them into the government without giving them important posts, we can make them our prisoners. Their presence in the government will prevent them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Awake | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...selfcriticism; it is the transition from wishfulness to wisdom, from innocence to maturity . . . In Plato's words, the philosopher has a view of all time and all existence. With such a perspective, he can put success in its place and failure in its place, and so be unshaken either by misfortune or good fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Fail & Take It | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Series. In the dejected Cleveland dressing room (the Indians had lost that day), a reporter found Boudreau, asked him who would pitch next day. "It'll be Bob Lemon tomorrow," said Boudreau. "How about Tuesday?" Snapped Boudreau: "There'll be no game Tuesday." There wasn't either. Bob Lemon, with the help of Gene Bearden, finished off Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pitching Pays | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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