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...unholy, free-loving, fierce-fighting Hurs of Sind, unlike most haters of the British in India, indulged their hate in murderous rampages. Their sadistic, lecherous chief, the pock-marked Pir of Pagaro, ruled them from a fortress town called the "Golden Kot." There, behind walls 60 feet high and twelve feet thick, the Pir indulged his perverted whims with palaces, harems, luxury baths, torture chambers, a gold-and-marble throne...
...Among some 700 teams, the 60 absentees will scarcely be missed (most famed: New York University). But most top-notch colleges, because of their Enlisted Reserve units, will not feel the war's pinch this year. There are two scars, however, that may disfigure the 1942 season: 1) pock-marked coaching staffs; 2) shriveled transportation...
Three years ago Africa's strategic potentialities were almost untouched. Now airfields pock equatorial jungle and flinty desert, hop-stops for U.S. planes ferried across the South Atlantic bound for Egypt and the Middle East. Gun snouts poke out of many an African harbor protecting supply bases and ports where vital convoys collect. U.S., British, Free French and Belgian officials shuttle across the once dark continent that is dark no longer...
...Hello, bombing field, this is b23. We have a 2,000-lb. bomb to drop." Before the plane came over the 20-ft. white X on the pock-marked ground a mile from the observers, its bomb doors opened. The bomb flopped out. The men in the tower could see it, a short pencil line hanging horizontal for a fraction of a second. Then its nose jerked down as the tail fins caught...
...goad to action was a new outbreak of rapine and train-wrecking in protest against the jailing of the Hurs' Robin Hood leader, the lecherous, pock-marked Pir of Parago (TIME, June 15). Coordinating land and air forces, the British dropped parachutists on the edge of the Sind desert. From there they moved west toward the Hurs' jungle stronghold in Makhi Dhand, the "honey swamp." A column of camelry moved in from the north. From the east, Punjab constabulary in assault boats drew the trap tighter. A motorized infantry unit completed boxing the jungle...