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Credit for victory went to the planner: General Leonid Govorov, plump, short, middleaged, with unruly hair and a Hitlerian mustache. In 1940 this artillery expert helped to open a corridor into Leningrad, broke the Germans' partial blockade but did not-as accounts at the time wrongly indicated-actually free the city. Until this month, German shells tore daily into Leningrad's brick-and-mortar flesh, and its defenders rode to the front in streetcars. More than a million had died of cold and hunger since Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's army first besieged the city...
...system used to overcome this difficulty was based upon the use of universes other than our own. Where these universes could be clearly seen, it was assumed that no cosmic dust clouds intervened. Thus accurate measurements could be taken. Partial obscuring of universes was also used to locate and chart the location of these dust clouds...
...eleventh hour ODT relented, released enough gas to restore partial service. But ODT, struggling with the newly serious oil shortage on the West Coast, warned the cab companies not to look for any extra gas if they run short again...
...fact that he is inevitably a member of a social group. Thus, he may study whatever courses he pleases, but he must also make practical contributions to the life of the college community. Tuition, board and lodging are $1,200 a year, but half the students are on partial scholarships. Graduation is based on an examination in the candidate's major field, given by a visiting specialist.* Black Mountain's 230 alumni have made a good showing in graduate study at major universities, in work at teaching, music, journalism. More than one in 20 are officers...
Finally, in 1937, the Army retired him when he was 56 - officially, because of his partial deafness. Major Chennault told a friend: "I'm glad to get out [of the Air Corps]. They're still running it with the old 1917-18 ideas." That same year the dark, determined Louisianian went to Shanghai and became Chiang Kai-shek's air adviser. "Why," he had growled, "should I worry my brains out when I can prove my theories somewhere else?" In a few months, the Japs almost wiped out his infant air force, but Chennault did not regret...