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Dead of Night isn't quite that good-but it is smoothly acted, cleverly directed, well off the beaten Hollywood path. It offers the same sort of spine-cooling thrill you get from listening to a group of accomplished liars swapping ghost stories...
...troops as part of a new truce agreement to replace the pact that the Communists broke. No one ever announced that the Reds had agreed. But suddenly last week Chiang's General Tu Liming led his troops 67 miles in four days up Manchuria's spine. As he stormed Changchun, the Reds withdrew limply to the north...
Local boards were ordered to make a drastic cut in physical requirements. Any man who has been able to fill a civilian job despite stuttering, partial paralysis, a hernia or a crooked spine, will be deemed suitable for the interim army. So will other 4-Fs previously disqualified because of "mental deficiencies, mild in degree." With 1,250,000 4-Fs to choose from, the Army hopes to wipe out its deficit by the end of April...
...time Author Flynn has plowed his foamy way to p. 308, Captain Shamus-and life itself-have humbled Cleo into the tender little woman she had secretly longed to be, and put the whole party through spine-tingling experiences with hurricanes, sharks, pygmies, headhunters and counterespionage for the U.S. Navy...
Ancient man's evolution into a creature standing on two legs modified his skeleton as well as his habits. The spine curved and grew longer; the ilia or wings of the pelvis flattened out; the last vertebrae became a flexible lever on which the body's weight was poised. But nature added no new muscles to support the upright...