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Behind the Mortars. The Jews' most dazzling military prize of the week was Haifa, the only port where seagoing ships can dock. As British troops prepared last week to withdraw from all of the city except the dock area, Jewish soldiers began to filter into the town. Others gathered on the slopes of Mount Carmel. One morning at i a.m. they struck. Behind a creeping mortar barrage, the Jews moved into the Arab quarters of the city. Bewildered Arabs gathered for one brief counterattack, then collapsed in leaderless confusion. Within a day, the Jews had taken Haifa...
...reaction created no great stir. MacArthur, acutely sensitive to criticism and impatient with opposition, has guarded his position as Japan's ruler by a tight censorship, designed to maintain his dignity, and thus the dignity of the U.S. As the first reaction to the candidacy began to filter back to Japan, the censorship was drawn tighter for both the Japanese press and U.S. Army publications...
Tradition shrieks at this slight on beards. By heards, are pondering heads kept in that proper balance and angle for peering at the checkered battlefield. They filter the impulsive tang from fresh air, admitting only the essence of mouldering decay so much a part of chess atmosphere...
...most daring and presumptuous thing about Wolf was his ambition to pour all of American experience through the filter of his own consciousness. All his novels are intensely autobiographical, self-centered as no other American writer has dared to be. And yet Wolfe claimed for them a universal relevance that no other American writer dared to claim...
...materialize of a sudden in the sophomore year of every class. It starts with the mass that pours through Memorial Hall for the first time every September, a mass that beneath the conglomerate look of be-wilderment already contains the seeds of its own division. Groups of Freshmen filter through--some alone and distant, some bred in the suburbs of Boston, some marked with the imprint of New England's boarding schools. Before the lines disappear, the little knots of conversation have started to coalesce into shadowy outlines of the independent masses they are destined to become...