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...Christmas day, 1917, the British Air Squadron thought it was doing well: it dropped one ton of bombs on Mannheim. Few days before, the Kaiser had roared in Berlin: "We must bring peace to the world by battering in with the iron fist and shining sword the doors of those who will not have peace...
...appalling fact dawned recently on Principal Leonard Mayfield of the Med ford, Ore. high school - there had not been a single fist fight .among his 350 little gentlemen in a year. A husky old wrestler himself, Principal Mayfield realistically reflected that many of his boys would soon have to know how to kill other boys. By last week Medford High's physical edu cation program had been radically revised. The new course, called "Personal Combat," is ranger-style training in high school. Says Mayfield: "It's gang-fighting, that's what...
...sunlit, stuccoed San Juan, beggars collapsed on the streets. There were fist fights when 22,000 pounds of spoiled codfish were dumped into the sea by customs inspectors. Last fortnight the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart reported, after a tour of the island, that storehouses were empty of rice and fish, that only a month's supply of beans was available. In San Juan, prices soared: the cheapest kind of beef meat sold for hamburger at 59? a pound, small brown eggs were three for a quarter, onions 40? a pound. Quinine to use against malaria...
...them the foreman need not travel across a long room and shout instructions. Instead he taps a shoulder near him, points to the man he wants. This man taps the next shoulder in the silent grapevine to the wanted worker. Then the foreman wigwags his instructions: A clenched fist pulled down above his head means drill press. Palms close together in front mean to the mute that his measurements are too short. Palms apart: he has erred in the opposite direction. The mutes need no bells to warn them of overhead crane and boom movements. They watch moving shadows...
...Dakar might find itself suddenly caught between two camps. Berlin studied the corners of a chessboard; either airpower had to be shifted from Russia or Rommel would continue to lose the battle of supply. Rome had reason to be afraid. If Rommel's army was destroyed, the Allied fist would be pointed from North Africa at Italy's soft underside...