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...months, U.N. commanders in Korea tried by various devices and ruses to lay hands on one of the enemy's Russian-built MIG-15 fighters. For months, the Reds foiled them. In London last week the British Admiralty proudly told how a splendid specimen of the sleek MIG was grabbed at last for U.N. scrutiny...
...nature of Wedemeyer's long and honored career in the Army helped to explain the peculiar quality of his testimony-sometimes bold, sometimes tentative, frequently inconclusive. A staff officer most of his life, Wedemeyer is a classic specimen of what the Army calls a Brain, an officer who is on speaking terms with history, economics and geopolitics, as well as with smaller military subjects. Every important Army unit needs a Brain almost as much as it needs a CO. Try though he did to become a tactical commander, Wedemeyer had devoted his army service to being a staff officer...
...different testing arrangements. Bridgman has conducted tests on tension, compression, bending, punching and hardness. The interior of the laboratory is connected to the outside world by seven electrically insulated leads. The leads are connected to instruments inside the laboratory for measuring the hydrostatic pressure, the force applied to the specimen, and the deformation of the specimen...
Yesterday the zoo--which calls Makoko "the finest specimen in the world"--embalmed the ape and sent the body to the Medical School, the brain to Columbia...
...Britain, where craftsmanlike novelists are almost as common as rooks at a mowing, careful readers watch for a rarer bird-the writer of first-rate short stories. In 1932 a fine specimen came along. James Stern, a young Irishman, published some stories about South Africa, where he had lived for a while, in a book called The Heartless Land. In 1938 he brought out another collection, Something Wrong. British critics had high praise for both volumes; only the first was published in the U.S., in a small edition. Said Author Christopher Isherwood: "James Stern is, as far as I know...