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...Hoffman, having declined an invitation to join the Harvard crew, plans to wing Wisconsin-way with a gleaming multi-facet job which may men wedding bells the' he claims otherwise. G. Grove, having previously committed himself, will assume added responsibility on this leave, and P. Harty, attorney-at-law and platoon-commander-extraordinary, will do likewise...
...plot of Hostages is complicated but it never turns into plot for plot's sake. Every new twist flashes a facet of the Nazi, quisling or underground political mind. These facets would flash brighter if all the characters were more incisive and the scenes moved faster...
...which enables an anti-aircraft gunner, for example, to look horizontally into the eyepiece and see his target overhead. The elbow telescope inverts the image; the roof prism's function is to turn the image right side up. Roof prisms are thum-sized, polished crystals whose two top facets are shaped like a peaked roof. In manufacture, a piece of glass is first sawed roughly to shape, then ground to exact proportions by a delicate hand. In the final product, every facet must be absolutely flat; the right angle between the roof facets must be accurate within...
...case, the question of the 99th is only a single facet of one of the Army's biggest headaches: how to train and use Negro troops. No theater commander wants them in considerable numbers; the high command has trouble finding combat jobs for them. There is no lack of work to be done by Negroes as labor and engineering troops-the Army's dirty work. But the American spirit of fair play, which occasionally devotes some attention to Negro problems, would be offended by a policy of confining Negroes to such duty, and the Negro press has campaigned...
...pattern grew plainer. Japan was directing every facet of psychological warfare toward the detachment of India from the United Nations' camp. Since March the Jap has been dangling pseudo-independence before one unit after another in her Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Nanking was first. Burma and the Philippines heard about their good luck in June. This month Thailand received chunks of territory transferred from the Malay States as an earnest of better things to come (TIME, July 12). With every move, Tokyo Radio beamed long accounts, in English, at India...