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Natural tritium is much too scarce to help the makers of hydrogen bombs, who will have to synthesize their tritium, presumably in a chain-reacting pile. The only use for it in sight at present is to trace the vertical motions of ocean currents. Since short-lived tritium originates in the atmosphere, only water that has been on the surface recently should have a full complement of it. Water that has spent many years in the ocean depths should be tritium-free...
Major General Hobart R. Gay, commanding general of the U.S. ist Cavalry Division, sat on a pile of rocks in a little village about 1,000 yards from a Communist roadblock that had cut off two of his battalions...
...field glasses, two enemy soldiers came over a small rise and took cover behind some bushes, Gay jumped up, hailed U.S. half-track and zeroed its .50 caliber machine guns in on the squatting Communists. When the gunners stopped firing, skinny General Gay came back to his rock pile. "They sure did take off that hill," he said happily...
...general kept going back & forth between his rock pile and the jeep where the artillery spotters were adjusting artillery fire. He gave an order here, congratulated a spotter there. "Haven't had so much fun since I was a lieutenant," he said, rubbing his balding head and picking up his glasses...
...general was silent on the way to his headquarters. When he got there he walked unwillingly toward his desk. The desk had a pile of papers on it. Gay looked at them with distaste, plunked down his helmet. "I've been having myself a hell of a time," he said as if to himself. He looked at the papers and added: "But I guess that's the sort of thing generals ought not to be doing...