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...badly equipped. MacArthur ordered Wainwright to put into effect War Plan Orange, the 20-year-old strategy for a withdrawal to the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island, where the defenders would wait for help from the U.S. He fell back skillfully, but there was no rescue in prospect.With his scratch army he conducted five months of resistance against the enemy's first team...
...Scratch Three Killers. To the U.S. Navy's submarine force, the fate of Harder, immobilized at a New London pier, seemed unhappily symbolic of a whole accumulation of woes and ills which has beset the "silent service" since the end of World War II. Harder is one of six new attack submarines equipped with novel lightweight diesel engines which the Navy's Bureau of Ships adopted over the protest of many submariners. All six ships have had engine problems comparable to Harder's, and are now being newly designed for an older-type engine. The Bureau...
Scotti: Governor, you surely know that after lunch I'll just get the scratch sheets. I'll read 'em and I'll play...
...that the school had virtually none of these things to offer. Instead, it said, prospective students would have to count on building most of the plant themselves. Nonetheless, last week nine sturdy teen-aged students were already out in Colorado paying $350 for the privilege of creating-practically from scratch-the Colorado Rocky Mountain School...
Little's literary violence often provokes equally violent reactions from readers. Last week Little joyously printed a letter denouncing him as an "ignorant, crazy imbecile" who should be confined to publishing his opinions "on a scratch pad." The stimulant for this intemperate comment was Little's latest, longest and most provincial campaign: a 41-column series dedicated to freeing Louis Bob Conley, a World War II veteran of Texas' own 36th Division, from a "concentration camp" in "medieval" Massachusetts...