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...based in either Japan or in the Philippines . . . They can reach all important target areas within an arc which includes all of Southeast Asia, the whole of China, the Lake Baikal industrial area, eastern Siberia, and the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula." In other words, Okinawa is the spearhead of U.S. retaliatory power in the Far East...
...Steamships, a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific transport empire bossed by Norris Roy Crump, 50, of Montreal, is counting on the new Empress to spearhead a comeback in the Atlantic passenger trade. Before World War II, C.P. was one of the world's biggest shipping firms, with fleets of liners and freighters in both the Atlantic and Pacific. Ten C.P. ships, including an earlier Empress of Britain, were lost in war service. By late 1952, when it was painfully apparent that costs were not going down, a $30 million order was placed for the new Empress of Britain...
...award itself is a kind of thanks for something that could never be paid for in coin of the realm: a 24-carat contribution to American art. In an age when the younger generation of artists is plunging headlong into the fashionable mists of abstractionism, Hopper is a spearhead of the opposite tradition, that art should reflect the contemporary scene...
...world had beaten its spears into pruning hooks and had hung its trumpet of war in the hall of the United Nations. Today, some people believe that, when the U.N. sounded its trumpet in Korea, it defended the peace with pruning hooks. Others believe that the U.N. is a spearhead of world government and, therefore, a menace to national sovereignty...
...Spiked Spearhead. Meanwhile, the U.S. had diplomatic difficulties of its own in the form of a thorny negotiation with Chiang Kai-shek over the evacuation of the Tachen Islands. Last September the U.S. decided that the islands of Quemoy and Matsu were not militarily vital to the defense of Formosa. Later, as a condition to giving up the Tachens, Chiang demanded a public U.S. promise to defend Quemoy and Matsu. Politically, this was a reasonable condition, for with the Tachens gone, the other islands, as well as having tactical value, would become a test in the minds of free Asians...