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Scores of demonstrators flattened against the pavement, some with wounds, some for safety. The fighting continued for hours. At least 20 demonstrators were killed, 150 persons, including a few police, injured. By nightfall Monday British troops had declared martial law, imposed a curfew, disarmed 800 guerrillas...
...Wanted. Out in Vancouver a group of high-ranking Army officers (three of them brigadiers), in an unprecedented breach of the King's regulations, had risked court-martial by telling reporters: the voluntary enlistments simply will network. In Europe General Dwight Eisenhower, asked to comment on the Canadian manpower famine, had replied that there was a job for every man available...
Telling no full-sized story, The Streets Are Guarded mixes vaporish mysticism with barrack-room horseplay and talk that lacks the old punch. Over it all lies the war-at-a-distance wistfulness of a man who once lived war at first hand. Meant for a martial chant, it is more like a nostalgic ballad, too often sung rustily...
...found. The Senate war investigating committee decided to make a survey. Secretary of War Stimson called it a problem of supply, promised that the situation would be corrected "as soon as possible." General Eisenhower ordered MPs to crack down harder than ever on the black market, ordered the court-martial of all G.I.s engaged in shady deals...
...course. It is believed to carry at least seven times the weight of its explosive in fuel. It probably has a series of jets, operated in succession to keep the rocket going on its long course (and perhaps helpful also in steering). One plausible reconstruction, by Martial & Scull, Manhattan industrial designers, indicated a steering mechanism in the tail. It seems unlikely that V-2 is steered by radio, since V-111s not and, at the heights to which V-2 climbs (60 miles or more), accurate observation to correct its deviations from the set course would be difficult. With...