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Working on the grim, untried tactics of nuclear battle, the Seventh has adopted the "shield and spear" principle. Its five-division conventional weaponry would be a shield to stop the first assault, force the Russians to concentrate in attack forces big enough to be devastated by the Seventh's nuclear "spear." The spear is made up of half a dozen Corporal ballistic-missile battalions (100-mile range), Honest Johns, Redstones, 280-mm. cannon, 8-in. howitzers-together capable of delivering at least 100 atomic warheads simultaneously...
...four remaining detention camps. Many of them, still marked by the blood-oath fanaticism of the old days, are considered cases more in need of psychiatric care than punishment. But last week the father of the terror, bearded London-and Moscow-educated Jomo Kenyatta, the notorious "Burning Spear" feared by whites and Kikuyu tribesmen alike, was let out of jail. He had served his seven-year sentence, with 28 months off for good behavior...
...daily to the district commissioner and must remain inside his quarters from sunset to dawn. He may receive out-of-town visitors only with permission of the Nairobi government. He will have a radio-but one that cannot pick up Moscow or Cairo. Reading material is forbidden him. Burning Spear may never address a meeting or join any organization. Though he is a spent man, his power to arouse his fellow blacks is still respected by the British, who are taking no chances...
...Roman watch fell to the Vandals 1,500 years ago, and where today the British guard is falling to nationalism. Whatever its accuracy as an omen, By the North Gate is one of the year's most chilling novels. It is as free of sentimentality as a native spear, as relentless in its bitter logic as simple hate...
With the javelin seemingly all over and Army men in first and second places, Tom Blodgett came over from the pole vault pit to take his last two throws. On his next-to-last attempt he threw the spear 184 ft., 1 in. to snatch the victory away from Army. Then he went back to the pole vault and, on his final try there, won the event with a 13-ft. effort. Sam Halaby cleared a surprising 12 ft., 6 in. to tie Army's John Young for second...