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...NATO experts regard the underground defenses of the Rock as secure as man can devise, and consider Gibraltar a vital point in the regulation of trade and supply routes to the Mediterranean. Solely on the basis of defense policy, the British have good reason to keep a tight grip on Gibraltar...
...third of the congressional seats and a quota of the Supreme Court and diplomatic missions. That has kept them quiet. Now 57, Tacho tells friends that he would like to take things easier, and he may be quite sincere about it. But the problem is how to loosen his grip without inviting an unseemly struggle for power, throwing innumerable relatives out of work and deflating the value of many of his properties. Most observers have concluded that he would try to keep the presidency in the family, turning it over to one of his two sons, Luis, now president...
...most vivid conflicts in the play are self-conflicts: Queeg's agonized attempts to keep a grip on his emotions, Greenwald's rigid determination to put a hood over his conscience. As Queeg, Lloyd Nolan plays brilliantly, is as self-revealing when still in control as when losing control. Henry Fonda's sober courtroom Greenwald is in fine contrast both to Queeg and to Greenwald drunk. The whole cast, from John Hodiak's Maryk on, is admirable: out of the stylized nature of the court-martial has been forged just the right style for a theater...
...first he slows down gradually because the thin air has little grip on him, but as soon as he reaches the denser air below 200,000 ft., he runs into the painful gravity increase caused by deceleration. This may rise to the dangerous figure of 7 Gs. It may rise even higher if the pilot's capsule has so little air resistance that it gains considerable speed from the pull of the earth before it slams against dense...
Because of a foot injury, Bob Rittenburg star hurdler, broad jumper, and all around point-getter, will probably be unable to challenge Harrison Dillard's six-year grip in the 45-yard high hurdles in the Knights of Columbus Annual Track Meet tomorrow night...