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...Square. Into the building will go some 150 chests of MacArthur's personal and military documents, his 123 U.S. and foreign decorations, battle trophies and gifts from the great, and the 126 battle flags that have unfurled over his soldier's career. On the collection's lighter side: the general's special gold-braided cap, his old sunglasses and his favorite corncob pipe...
...seven German divisions in NATO, says Strauss, are intermeshed "like a Zipper" along the theoretical line of battle with British, Dutch, American and French divisions. Though the German army already has 3,000 U.S.-built tanks, Strauss plans to replace them with a lighter, faster, lower model to be produced jointly with the Italians and French. The army's other key vehicle, in conformity with the German World War II doctrine that infantrymen should ride straight into combat, is an armored personnel carrier (powered by a British engine, and using Swiss and French components) that can charge through machine...
FLORIDA ORANGES, which have a lighter, less attractive color than their California competitors, will be dyed a deeper shade, thanks to Food and Drug Administration. It has approved a new additive to make Florida oranges look more appetizing...
...World War II, one of the several promising ways to purify U-235 was to pass uranium hexafluoride, a uranium-containing gas, through a centrifuge-a sort of souped-up cream separator-that would spin the gas at enormous speed and subject it to high, gravitylike forces. The slightly lighter molecules containing U-235 would tend to stay near the center of the centrifuge, while the heavier molecules containing U-238 would move toward the spinning sides...
...store of memory, characterized by the special blend of feeling -love of life combined with a shrugging irony about its limitations-that marks the best of his films and plays. Some of Author Pagnol's anecdotes are a little too pat, recalling some of the slapstick in his lighter movies. And at the end, when he looks back on the deaths of some of those he loved, he allows himself a platitude, a kind of sentimental existentialism: "Such is the life of man. A few joys, quickly obliterated by unforgettable sorrows." But he notes immediately with the kindness that...