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Britain's Suez Canal base is less a fortress than a giant imperial department store, crammed to its barbed-wire extremities with jets, fieldpieces, trucks, tanks, uniforms and the 10,000 other requirements of a modern army. The world's largest military depot, it can take 250,000 naked soldiers in at one end, march them out the other equipped to the last brass button (which is just about what it did in World War II with 28 infantry divisions...
Perched atop a hill 500 feet above the Austrian city of Salzburg (pop. 100,096), the Hohensalzburg Fortress looks for all the world like a candy castle in some fairy tale. A tiny railway scrambles to the top, and tourists flock to the terrace for a breath of mountain air and a view of the Salzburg valley below. Last week the tourists had an extra surprise in store for them. Oskar Kokoschka, one of the most furious individualists in modern art (TIME, July 12, 1948), had taken over the barracks of the old fortress for a summer art school...
Magic Numbers. Applause broke out again repeatedly as Ike took the offensive against critics of the Administration's proposed defense budget. The new defense program, he said, "allocates funds as justly and as wisely as possible among the three armed services." Then the President turned to the "fortress" theory of U.S. foreign policy, the up-to-date version of isolationism dear to many a Midwestern heart. Said he: "All of us have learned-first from the onslaught of Nazi aggression, then from Communist aggression-that all free nations must stand together or they shall fall separately." Rejecting the "partial...
...February 1945 the Flying Fortress Star Dust was struck by flak over Berlin. With two engines dead, another crippled and only the fourth putting out full power, Star Dust's pilot, Lieut. George F. Ruckman, abandoned all hope of getting back to England and headed east. Losing altitude steadily, he finally made a crash landing at a Russian-held airstrip near Torun in Poland...
...Fortress. In return for Ruckman's wrist watch and fountain pen, a Russian major lent them a truck to carry the salvaged parts back to Torun airstrip. To get the salvaged engine into place, Ruckman traded his own, non-G.I. revolver for the use of a hoist. By mid-March, Star Dust was able to limp to Italy, then back to England, where Ruckman rejoined his outfit and flew ten more missions, eight of them in Star Dust...