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...Exercise Long Horn, the vast Army-Air Force mock war in Texas, the green-clad Aggressor forces had just seized a position deep behind the defenders' lines and were massing for a new attack. Suddenly a blank mortar shell exploded over the invaders' heads with a roar and a burst of smoke. The umpires stunned the Aggressors with a terse ruling: 1,600 of their men had just been put out of action; the exploding shell symbolized a devastating hit by a revolutionary new weapon, atomic artillery...
Even G. Galbraith 21, and James S. Gralton 21, presented the winning argument for the Scott Club in last night's mock trial...
Hepburn, his co-star, also turns in a fine mock-heroic performance, but it seems to me that she is rather old for this sort of thing...
...heels of the announcement that the Young Republican Club will hold its mock presidential nominating convention on April 23, came the prediction from the president of the Eisenhower Club that Ike will win top spot by "one magnificent landslide on the second ballot...
...With mock surprise, the Prime Minister wondered why Parliament had not been told about this great development. "The Conservative Opposition would certainly have supported the government . . . Nevertheless, the [Socialists] preferred to conceal this vast operation and its finances from the scrutiny of the House not even obtaining a vote on the principle involved, while, at the same time, with Machiavellian art, keeping open the advantage of accusing their opponents of being warmongers...