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...aspect which the committee would no doubt probe thoroughly was the break ing of coded Japanese messages and the information they gave the U.S. high command before war began. Among the witnesses are Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1941; Captain Alwin D. Kramer, also of ONI; and various decoding and radar officers...
...attribute the wartime show ing of Russian agriculture to Soviet planning or to the inherent efficiency of col lective farming. Candidly, he said that "patriotism - an outstanding rise in pa triotism" was what kept Russian food production from collapsing...
...Business. Important visitors, including touring U.S. Congressmen, have found Trujillo the soul of affability. At home he can point to solid achievements: great advances in irrigation and sanitation, improved roads and schools, build ing projects. Trujillo's enterprises and taxes have helped drive living costs up. But his Government has been "orderly...
Socialism, riding high in many another nation, was having a rough ride in Canada. As virtually everyone thought it would, the socialist CCF Party took another lick ing at the polls this week-this time in Manitoba. In that province's first election since 1941 (and Canada's first since war's end), the Liberal-Conservative coalition of Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson won easily...
...quarrel with the old-style comic like Mr. & Mrs., The Gumps, Gasoline Alley, and he seems to have a sneak ing admiration for Li'l Abner ("sexy and synthetic pastoralism" done with "manifest cleverness.") But, he says, "there seems to be nothing in the good comics which keeps readers from liking the others." He saves his sharpest slings for Superman's female counterpart, a four-year-old character named Wonder Woman, who is described by her creator as "the girl from Paradise Isle, beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, stronger than Hercules and swifter than Mercury." Wonder Woman...