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...days Allied reconnaissance planes had been reporting troop move ments in the Palatinate (southwestern corner of the German Rhineland), so the attack could not have been another sur prise. But the U.S. Seventh Army troops in that area found it hard to deal with. The deepest thrust reached 15 miles to the south before it was stopped...
...weather last week came to the aid of Allied forces in southwestern China. It was bitter weather, and it brought new suffering to ill-clad, undernourished lao ping (China's G.I. Joe). But it also gave China's armies a priceless gift of time. The enemy was trying to stabilize his positions after being driven back down the Kweiyang-Liuchow road and railway, clear out of Kweichow Province. At week's end, the two armies were digging into the frozen ground around Hochih...
...Also rejected: three U.S. companies, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. and Sinclair Oil Corp. They sought concessions in southwestern Iran...
Heart Man. In heart cases particularly, many doctors insist on prolonged rest in bed. But Dr. Tinsley R. Harrison, a heart specialist of Southwestern Medical College, Dallas, said this was just a newfangled notion. He cited the cases of two famous physicians-Sir James Mackenzie, "the father of modern cardiology" (1853-1925), and John Hunter (1728-93)-who lived strenuously for many years with serious heart diseases. He mentioned also the angina pectoris patient of the famed 18th-Century physician, William Heber-den, "who set himself the task of sawing wood for half an hour every day and was nearly...
Abandoned by their own defeated naval rescue force, the Japs knew they faced a hopeless fight to the death. They soon burrowed into the central uplands, leaving the southwestern end of the island to the Americans, who captured more booty than they had ever seen before...