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Thus, Backman believes, organisms riding on cosmic particles or meteorites might fly safely through celestial space. He admits they would meet a great hazard when they hit the earth's atmosphere, where atmospheric friction would heat the particles or meteorites enough to destroy all organisms clinging to them. But he believes that the atmosphere may tear the organisms away from their carriers before they get too hot. Any such free-floating bacteria which came in on the earth's dark side, shaded from the sun, might drop safely to earth. Q.E.D...
...Problem. For the first time, hints of friction in Southeast Asia had been spoken out loud. Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten differs with Stilwell, looks far into the future, wants to retake Sumatra, Malaya (with Singapore), Thailand, Indo-China, punch through a sea route to China. Stilwell's Chinese troops and his air force are necessary for that program...
...full of talk about Anglo-American understanding and friendship (nobody knows TIME, JANUARY 10, 1944 exactly what to do about it). Oxford and Cambridge are open to American soldiers for study on furlough. People give joint Anglo-American parties, organize clubs and canteens, exchange purring speeches. Some inescapable friction remains. The Americans and the British are getting all mixed up together for war; whether their friendship will survive and last, none can tell...
Goebbels runs the show but Ribbentrop's Foreign Office has the final say on what is broadcast-a source of endless friction...
...friction begins at the level where G.I. Joe meets the British common...