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...pockets of his superbly tailored flier's uniform he had a photograph of his four-year-old son, two phials of medicine, one for his weak heart, the other for a gall-bladder ailment. He also had a selection of photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel Castle near Glasgow. Dungavel is the seat of 38-year-old Wing Commander Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, 11th Duke of Brandon...
...map Africa looks like a fat pistol holster, and about where the lower extremity of the butt would nestle lies the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone. This little nook of Empire has suddenly become important-because of its only port...
...well defended bases in the Atlantic and Caribbean. But they did mean that action was getting under way, and they implied that of all the chain of southern defense sites-not only those leased from Britain but those at Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone (see map, p. 21)-Trinidad's development stood high on the list of priorities...
Together with Germany's published propaganda dividing the world into four economic areas (see map), the "abstract" made one thing clear: Germany and Japan do their diplomatic thinking along deadly parallels. But whereas Germany's appeasement feeler was designed to convince unanalytical U.S. citizens of its reasonableness, no matter what its intent, Japan's was a blunt invitation to the U.S. to abdicate as a great power. The plan...
Baldish, greying, affable and modest Colonel Parker bosses an army of more than 1,400 subordinate engineers, some 9,200 construction workers. When he is not working in his map-and-chart-laden office, he travels over his huge project in a TVA plane. Says he: "We are able to get specialists in our organization and keep them, because of the nature of the work. We exchange ideas. We not only design our projects but we have our own force to construct them, so that there is co ordination...