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...more than 25 minutes of the first half, those energetic cheerleaders seemed the best the Army could produce. Navy's Quarterback George Welsh, with his deadly pitching arm and his farflung halfbacks, was just too much. With deceptive ease, the Middies caught the opening kick-off and steamed 76 yds. for the first score of the game. It hardly seemed to matter that the extra-point kick was wide. Whenever Welsh dropped back to pass, the Navy line gave him plenty of time. And he was almost always on target. When the Army secondary dropped back to cover. Welsh...
...every Foreign Minister of the world knew what international Communism is," he said. "It is disturbing if the foreign affairs of one of our American republics are conducted by one so innocent that he has to ask that question." Then Dulles defined international Communism in blistering terms as "that farflung, clandestine political organization which is operated by the leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and which, since 1939, has brought 15 once-independent nations into a state of abject servitude...
Millionaire Friedrich Flick, onetime financier of the SS, is a German coal baron whom the allies jailed (1945-50) for using slave labor in his farflung mines. Two-thirds of Flick's holdings were grabbed by the Communist government of Eastern Germany; the rest were ordered broken up by U.S. and British trustbusters. Flick agreed to sell his majority (60%) interest in the Harpener Bergbau, and looked around for a German customer. He found none: German businessmen, strapped for cash, need all their ready capital to build new factories...
...Hedgehog's Spikes. In Hanoi, General Linares faced a new and alarming situation. Though he had extricated his center, his left flank was crumbling. First, farflung French outposts, and then Sonla itself had to be abandoned. The French pulled back into Nasan 117 miles west of Hanoi, the only remaining bastion of the Black River defense line. An airlift (a plane every 15 minutes) was bringing reinforcements into Nasan and flying out thousands of Sonla's refugees. Situated in a wide-open plateau, rare in that country, Nasan, with its fortified air strip and embrasured artillery...
...ideas, the intricate mechanical drudgery of the laboratory and the industrial plant. But last week Rosenberg, an electrical engineer, and Sobell, an electronics expert-two faceless men out of faceless thousands-were suddenly projected from anonymity into the hot glare of public scrutiny. They went on trial for a farflung, sustained conspiracy to steal the U.S.'s most vital military secrets during and after World War II and deliver them to Soviet Russia. Maximum penalty: death...