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From TIME (July 3): "Sound waves signal ahead to air molecules to get out of the way of a moving object; at supersonic speeds the object runs smack into groups of unwary molecules...
...speed. Why do shock waves hit a plane at the speed of sound? Why not sooner-or later? The physicists' best guess: sound waves signal ahead to air molecules to get out of the way of a moving object; at supersonic speeds the object outraces the warning, runs smack into groups of unwary molecules...
...into high gear last week when beachhead tank losses in France were bigger than anticipated; in addition, Rear Admiral Emory S. Land announced that merchantship production would soon be stepped up). But a scheduled cut in overall war production is at last in view. Then the U.S. will be smack up against many of the manifold problems of reconversion, must face up to the task of supplying jobs to those laid off by the cutbacks and shutdowns...
...Pioneer. A 24-year-old Dalmatian sailor commanded the Partisans' only warship, the fishing smack Pioneer, whose eight men were armed with four rifles. The Dalmatian told of sighting an Italian coastal convoy one day-15 vessels, strung-out over 15 miles, with a minesweeper at each end of the column. The Pioneer attacked in the middle. The captain of the attacked boat, seeing rifles, surrendered. A Partisan went aboard, ordered the prize to head for a small section of the coast which was held by Partisans. The Pioneer went after the next vessel, applied the same treatment...
...rueful, humorous, clever Jewish refugee (delightfully played by Oscar Karlweis) both have to bolt from Paris on the run. The colonel cannot find a car; Jacobowsky finds one but cannot drive. Grandly tossing out Jacobowsky's luggage, the colonel condescends to take the wheel, and off they go-smack toward the Nazis in order to fetch the colonel's pretty mistress (Annabella-see p. 62). From then on, while the colonel remains majestically helpless, Jacobowsky gets the party out of tight squeezes, ferrets out food, locates gasoline. As the colonel's lady becomes more & more admiring...