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...himself to try to shape their characters. This time there was too much stacked against him. Between the overwhelming Chinese, the character flaws of his men and his own protectiveness, the patrol ended in a disaster in which heroism and simple humanity were underscored during a brief stretch of nightmarish combat...
...view at London's Tate Gallery were 209 paintings, sculptures and prints selected by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art as a sequel to its big Paris show (TIME, April 18). London critics in general frankly admitted that they found the experience "disquieting" and even "nightmarish." Decided the London Observer: "Most of these artists seem to reflect the character of a continent at once inquiring, energetic, assertive, and ill at ease...
Decisive Moment. "We will walk back into Burma," said Merrill firmly, as his men left India in February 1944. For the next four months, supplied by airdrops and using only mules and their own feet for transport, they slogged 500 miles across the most nightmarish terrain on earth, fought five major engagements and 30 minor ones against the crack Japanese 18th Division, whose commanders were convinced that the regimental-strength Marauders totaled two full divisions...
...Cossack scientist. Mikhail Soloviev, who in World War II became a leader of the resistance fighting both the Germans and the Communists in White Russia, started out as a nimble-footed military journalist skilled in all the slippery tricks of Mos cow intrigue. Their stories, nightmarish documentaries of Communist Russia's bureaucratic life, suggest what sort of ani mals survive best in that jungle...
America's defenses against this nightmarish-but very real-possibility are centered in the pleasant resort town of Colorado Springs. There, in a two-story blockhouse, grey and windowless, is a huge Plexiglas map on which the position of any strange plane sighted anywhere over North America is immediately plotted. Within two minutes, two jet interceptors scramble skyward with orders to identify the unknown aircraft-or shoot it down...