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...great island of Luzon (41,000 sq. mi., pop. four million) was the epicenter of a man-made earthquake which rocked the whole Japanese Empire last week. Off Luzon's western coast, the Jap radio screamed, were vast U.S. convoys whose guardian warships were blasting the defenses in Lingayen Gulf, 100 miles north of Manila. The Japs said troops were landing. General MacArthur's return to the Philippines, begun at Leyte last Oct. 20, might be nearing its crowning achievement. Among the smaller Philippine islands to the south, landings had been made to consolidate the hold...
Even from the new airdromes on Saipan, the reach to Tokyo (1,500 mi.) was a long one. The Superfortresses, built for just such a job, had to go out with cut-down bomb-loads and carefully calculated fuel allowances to make the run and get home. But as airmen worked into intimate acquaintanceship with their massive, wondrously complicated weapon, the assaults were stepped up both in timing and in loads dropped. This week, when the B-29s had struck the great industrial center at Nagoya a second time, the force on Saipan could count five assaults...
...Anderson crew began looking for some other target, found a fine fat factory in Hamamatsu (55 mi. south of Nagoya) and plunked their bombs squarely among its buildings. Then came the letdown. Back on Saipan, Anderson reported his emergency measure-and got a big laugh. The plant was a musical instrument factory...
...princes' 562 states range in size from 19-sq.-mi. Lawa to Hyderabad, which is almost as large as Great Britain. TIME, DECEMBER
Most U.S. modernists still revere and follow in basic principles the European pioneers of the early '20s-Gropius, Oud, Le Corbusier, Miës van der Rohe. But younger architects no longer make a fetish of pure functionalism (following Le Corbusier's dictum "a house is a machine for living") and the ruthless exclusion of all ornament. While they pay close attention to the purposes of their buildings and are inclined to let structural forms speak for themselves, they are concerned about the grace of their designs. All this can be clearly seen in three of the book...