Word: hit-and-run
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...sharp as sonar. The Liverpool stokers blaspheme authentically, and about the story lies the fascination of precise technical information and service jargon-the grim grammar of war. After 20 months of the terrible Murmansk run, Ulysses is brought to her death at the guns of a hit-and-run German cruiser. Many of those who volunteer to buy the book will wish it could be compulsory reading in Russia. It recalls a cost of Lend-Lease not in dollars or pounds but in unimaginable hardship...
...same time a frighteningly close caricature of a well-known Hollywood type-the self-made magnate who demonstrates in his person, as Fred Allen once remarked, "the horrors, of unskilled labor." Producer lays it on the line: sign the contract or go to jail (for the hit-and-run killing of a girl, committed while the star was driving drunk-a rap that was taken for him by a studio flunkey). Star signs...
...Thing. The U.S. Marine Corps ordered production of Ontos [Greek for The Thing], a fast (40 m.p.h.), tracked antitank vehicle. Bristling with six recoilless 106-mm. rifles, the 8.5-ton Ontos relies on hit-and-run tactics rather than heavy armor for survival, uses .50-cal. machine guns to sight in on a target with tracer bullets, then fires off its heavy battery and runs for cover to reload...
Divorced. Sam Spiegel, 51. Hollywood producer (African Queen, On the Waterfront); by Lynne Baggett, 28, sometime Hollywood bit actress: the day after his Waterfront won eight Oscars (see CINEMA), and two months after her release from a 50-day prison term in the hit-and-run death of a nine-year-old boy; after nearly four years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...maneuvers near Jolon, Calif, last week, the Army's 2nd Infantry Division set out to destroy an "enemy" missile-launching site whose concrete roof, 14 feet thick, had defied aerial bombing. In a hit-and-run raid, the G.I.s hypothetically turned the site into a radioactive crater...