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Fortnight ago a bald little Japanese general nicknamed The Razor became Premier of Japan. Hideki Tojo's* sparse mustache looks as if it might blow off in a stiff breeze and his tortoise-shell spectacles have a slightly cockeyed, precarious perch on his nose. Nevertheless the world press shuddered with apprehension that The Razor might be the raging snickersnee that the Japanese Army had been crying for, that Japan's months of indecision would now be resolved by mad swipes at Siberia, at Singapore, or at both...
...Filter Center has filtered out false alarms and corrected errors, the information is relayed to the Main Operations Board, where each plane is charted on a 30-ft. table map, from the moment of its discovery until the "All Clear" sounds. Brooding over the Main Operations Board, from a perch in a glass-enclosed balcony, is the controller, key man of the setup, who determines the best way to head off the enemy. With him are officers in charge of antiaircraft, balloon barrages, searchlights and air-raid warnings. The controller, whatever his military rank, is supreme in his area...
...beautiful Rabaul occupies a terrible perch on the rim of a great undersea volcano. Out of this harbor rise volcanic islands, one sinister cone called Matupi...
...From its perch on the towering crags of Buda one dawn last week the Hungarian Foreign Office abruptly announced that Premier Count Paul Teleki had just died of a heart attack. Intimates of the Teleki family whispered that Count Teleki had taken poison. Finally doctors who examined the body signed a one-sentence communiqué: "Premier Teleki committed suicide at dawn April...
...plucks my ear and says Live-I am coming." He lived with the wise irreverence of a soldier who has seen the end of the story too often and knows that its only novelty is in its surprise. This vast tolerance was really neither liberal nor conservative. The natural perch of his mind was that high narrow ledge where there is room only for those who know that without the courage to change perpetually there is no growth, and without reverence for tradition there is human and social disaster. "If a man is great," he said, "he makes others believe...