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...only lettermen left from last year's squad, was declared temporarily ineligible for today's game, ostensibly for failing an exam. Also injuries have been added to the basic insult over the past few weeks, and top backs Tom Bell, Freddle Meyers, John Wing, and Pote Manus were unable to appear last Saturday against Dartmouth. All of them, however, may be back in action today...
...seven other Pacific bases which the Navy had asked to retain at war's end, only Guam-Saipan was still active, and Guam's personnel had been halved. Adak, Leyte, Manus and Iwo had been abandoned or left in housekeeping status: Kodiak had become a minor base. Pacific fleet strength had also been sharply cut back. Three carriers and six cruisers were headed for mothballs, leaving only a handful of combat ships to guard the supply lines to the occupation forces in Japan...
...very weak and hungry, and nearly dead, but the natives of Ninigo looked after him until an Australian district officer came and took him to a hospital on a big island called Manus. Afterwards, Nabetari came to Tarawa by airplane...
...military Equator across that ocean and assert its claim to one-power control of everything north of the line. The military Equator closely follows the geographic, save for a zig to the north to exclude Dutch Morotai, and a zag to the south to take in Australian-mandated Manus. South of this line (in Indonesia and Melanesia) the U.S. would be content with transit privileges for ships and aircraft...
...shipped in. They are Kodiak and Attu in the Aleutians, Okinawa on the strategic northwestern frontier, the great sheltered anchorages of Eniwetok, Kwajalein and Truk. The others, buttoned up with only a fire and security watch: Dutch Harbor, Tinian, Majuro in the Marshalls, Samoa, the Australian mandate of Manus, Palau, and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines...