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...Criticism that Allied Forces Do Not Fight Enough at Night. This was a valid criticism at one time, but it is not true today. During the first three months of this year, there were 629 ambushes-mostly at night-sprung on the enemy by friendly forces, as opposed to only 81-mostly during the day-initiated by the enemy...
...increasingly bitter campaign, the state-guided press is attacking Americans for consorting with "hired wives," siring "redhaired babies" and "deceiving girls and making them become prostitutes." Reflecting the public uproar, the Thai Cabinet two weeks ago ordered that the clusters of bars, bordellos and massage parlors that have sprung up alongside U.S. military installations be removed to less conspicuous locations so that they will no longer bring "moral and social decline to the people...
Avatar is one of several irreverent, fuzzily written hippie newspapers that have sprung up in the U.S. It contains no more erotica than the rest; even its chief contributor, Mel Lyman, who claims to be God, is nothing out of the ordinary. Avatar differs only in that it is published in the Boston area, where such publications are traditionally frowned on. Soon after it first appeared last spring, city fathers grew restive. Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci set the tone by calling it the "filthiest junk I have ever laid eyes on." News dealers heard a warning in this...
...tracks around the U.S.; last year it sanctioned 1,027 races on 85 tracks around the world. Attendance has grown from a few hundred thousand fans to an estimated 12 million, and instead of gasoline money, drivers now compete for $3,500,000 in prizes. New tracks have sprung up all over the country-Charlotte, N.C., Atlanta, Riverside, Calif. But the showplace is still Bill France's own Daytona International Speedway...
...Perhaps the most important exchange involves F.D.R.'s effort to pack the Supreme Court. Both men overestimated the people's mandate, and both came off badly. The President, as Frankfurter's letters make clear, did not let his friend in on the scheme until it was sprung on the country. But then he enlisted Frankfurter's legal advice as he tried to push it through. Although Frankfurter had misgivings over Roosevelt's political heavyhandedness, he acquiesced. He was convinced that the Court had provoked reprisals by its exercise of judicial power, and in a letter...