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...experiences at sea were the background for his monumental "History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II." Morison served on 11 different ships during the war, received seven battle stars and the Legion of Merit and finally retired from the Naval Reserve in 1951 with the rank of Rear Admiral. Nine of the 14 volumes of the naval history have been published, and with his coming retirement, Morison expects to complete the work within the next few years...
...clock the room is suddenly quiet. A group of short, chunky men file into a rear pew: the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the all-high bosses of Communism, has arrived. There is a short, brief explosion of applause, which ends exactly on the instant, for this is the best drilled and most obedient body of public executives in the world-yet one not entirely incapable of shock...
...Japanese. Zhukov applied classic cavalry tactics to armored warfare: he massed his tanks, smashed a hole through the center of the Japanese Sixth Army, and bloodily crushed its flanks between his fanning-out Panzers and advancing infantry. This little-known action helped deter the Japanese from attacking the Soviet rear in 1941, leaving Stalin free to bring his Siberian troops westward to the defense of Moscow...
Muzzle Covers On. From Okinawa, Formosa and Manila, 132 U.S. and 27 Nationalist Chinese ships had converged on the Tachens; Sabre jets of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing patrolled the sea lane that led back to Formosa. From Saigon had come Rear Admiral Lorenzo Sabin. where he had directed the evacuation of 214,000 Vietnamese. "We are going in with our muzzle covers on," said Sabin, "but we are prepared to go into action if we are opposed...
...what wee called "low instruments"--the lowness referring not to pitch but to decibels--in this case, the recorder, lute, viol and clavichord, all of which had minute expressive range. The music, furthermore is mainly of an intimate sort designed to be heard at close range, not from the rear of a long hall. Nevertheless, the evening was a great success form the standpoint of both performers and audience...