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...Europe, already set up near Reims, was a vast deployment center (about 60 sq. mi.). Into it had begun the march of veterans eligible for discharge. Some eligibles, specialists in their fields, would have to wait for trained replacements. The shifting of men by ones, by tens, by new temporary companies...
...about 180-odd miles from Toronto and has, in addition to the above-mentioned fauna, bear, mink, moose, and wolves (researchers beware). It is, in fact, Algonquin Provincial Park, with a post office and all, some 1,500 lakes, covering, I would guess, about 3,000 sq. mi. of "picnic grounds," mostly second-growth coniferous stand, with some virgin timber in the north...
Hare & Hounds. Unlike Crusoe, Tweed was a fugitive as well as a castaway, and his story is a harrowing tale of hare & hounds. Never for a moment did the Japs relax their hunt for him and the five other U.S. servicemen who chose to hide on the 225 sq. mi. island rather than surrender with the rest on Dec. 10, 1941. Time after time Tweed abandoned a hideaway only minutes before a Jap hunting party arrived...
...Marino, Europe's oldest (1,600 years) and smallest (38 sq. mi.) republic, which nestles on an Apennine mountainside below Florence, became Europe's first liberated nation to hold a general election. Six months after they declared war on Germany* and sent their plumed, sworded, 950-man army into action on the Italian front, the San Marinese chose a new Grand Council. They voted resoundingly for the leftist "Committee of Liberty." Of 60 seats at stake, the Committee won 40 (Communists 18, Socialists 18, Republican Democrats 4). The remaining 20 seats went to the old, purged parties...
...Tokyo, where the main administrative and business section had been rebuilt in reinforced concrete after the 1923 earthquake, the B-29 firebirds' commanders selected a 10-sq.-mi. area of flimsier construction, east of the Imperial Palace. In Nagoya-which had suffered little from earthquakes, and so had not been modernized-it was a 5-sq.-mi. area in the heart of the city...