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...hunch-and Ike Eisenhower gave him the green light-he might peel off with a tank column for Berlin, or Leipzig or Berchtesgaden, at a moment's notice. If Patton's wildest dream came true, he would find Adolf Hitler in a German tank and slug it out with him. But for the moment, dreams aside, Patton had reason for calm and happy reflection. He was having the time of his action-choked, 40-year Army career...
...last week U.C.L.A. trainers were delighted with the result. As they had hoped, the new game discouraged gentlemanly reticence; baskets and ball merely offered an incentive to slug the other man before he could get in his jaw-jarring lick. Best of all, it was giving trainees a practical demonstration of an ancient U.S. Navy tenet: the best defense is a strong offense...
...American delegation soon learned that it was not necessary to down a full slug of vodka for each toast at the formal dinners. Sometimes the toast could be drunk in a weak wine, sometimes it was only necessary to touch the glass to the lips. But when there was a "big toast"-to a nation or a chief of state-the glasses had to be drained. Vodka and wine were served at all meals, even breakfast. To make sure there would be enough, the Russians brought 14,000 bottles to Yalta...
...Jensen tells the how: how a boy from Alameda feels in combat over Truk ("Those Grummans are beautiful planes," said Lieut, (j.g.) Eugene Valencia; "if they could cook, I'd marry one"); how a baby-faced lad from Athens, Ga. came to be known as "One-Slug" McWhorter ("You just sat back, pressed the button and he blew up and wasn't there any more"); and how planes are lost, in combat or accident; and how the Navy risks everything to save downed flyers from becoming drowned or captured flyers...
...Castrator" mines planted by the Germans in Belgium and Holland. Small blocks of wood, fitted with a striker pin, hold a single rifle cartridge. When a man walking at normal stride steps on the trigger, the cartridge explodes, drives the slug violently upward...