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...these preparations may have been solely defensive. Occupation of Spain by Hitler would entail a heavy risk. The adventure would probably require 25 divisions. The Iberian Peninsula would earn Hitler some 1,800 miles of vulnerable coastline. Since most Spanish railways are broad gauge and already taxed for internal needs, it would give Hitler a logistical headache. But above all, it would disperse his forces to duplicate a job already being done at the Tunisia-Sicily bottleneck...
...root of the trouble is a difference of medical opinion. There are many anesthetics, each with its pros & cons, from which a surgeon may choose. For abdominal operations, for example, some surgeons prefer a spinal anesthetic. Other surgeons avoid spinals because they entail a somewhat greater risk of complications (e.g., occasional paralyses, persistent headaches and other late effects) than anesthetic gases. Many patients prefer the new rectal anesthetics because they leave none of the aftereffects which ether usually produces. Some doctors contend that nearly all the unpleasant effects of ether (vomiting, nausea, etc.) can be avoided if the anesthetist...
Three hours of your time next Monday night will perform an invaluable service for the U. S. Army Air Corps. The evening will be painless, cost no money, entail no obligation, and will probably be interesting to boot. The occasion is the new mental examination which the Army Air Corps has just devised, and which will be given its first tryout at Harvard. Four hundred undergraduates are needed to act as guinea pigs, and while many Freshmen have already volunteered, the services of at least 150 upperclassmen are urgently needed...
...only will his teaching entail an easing of his retirement but will necessitate his breaking a long-standing personal tradition by addressing an audience of women for the first time. He has not promised to curb his vehement chastising of hat-wearing or newspaper-reading during his lectures, and it is presumed that his classes will be as colorful as they are traditionally painted...
Army is about to replace rubber treads on its tanks with steel-though the changeover would entail a 10% loss in tank speed. Chief reasons for the Army's new spirit of self-denial...