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...Taylor Henry wrote that from his observation German morale, far from falling, had risen in the past six months; the determination to fight it out was stronger than ever. Slave labor (40% of productive workers) was being kept in line; work was being speeded on refitting the 2,751-mi. coastal-defense line from Norway's tip to Spain's border in the light of lessons learned in Italy...
Japan's situation was indeed critical. In her desperation she had apparently written off nearly 3,000,000 square miles (size of the U.S.: 3,026,789 sq. mi.) of the western Pacific-the area roughly of the mandated Caroline and Marianas Islands, which she had once counted upon as the outer defenses of her empire...
...short, rotund General Leonid Govorov went the credit for the most momentous of the four successes. A month earlier he had been besieged in Leningrad. This week the Leningrad front was no more: Govorov's armies fought on Estonian soil. Estonia's capital, Tallinn, was only 150 mi. away...
Pobeda II. To the south 600 mi. another Red Army was driving forward on what was once foreign soil. Its chief was moon-faced General Nikolai Vatutin, captor of Kiev, perhaps Russia's most brilliant field commander...
...second day of school third graders greet each other in Spanish. Children talk about their ages, games, homes. Gradually their vocabularies expand. Pupils learn how words and phrases should sound, not abstract rules. Formal grammar comes in high school. The same ideas are embodied in Mireles' textbooks (Mi Libra Español, I, II and III), the latest of which is just off the press...