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Rosenau and Kanter, the guards, are experienced operators. Rosenau, squat and stocky, plays both ways although he is stronger on offense than defense, where he showed a weakness against T formation teams last year...
...hangman, he credited himself with more than 300 successful executions, topped off his career four years ago by hanging ten of the Nazi leaders condemned in the Nürnberg trials. "Never saw a hanging go off any better," he said cheerfully afterwards. He was not disturbed when bald, squat Julius Streicher, the Jew baiter, had snarled at him: "The Bolsheviks will hang you, too, some...
...lanes now have a new and friendlier look to airplane pilots. Dotted along the air lanes at 100-mile intervals (or less) are squat steel towers topped with curious structures like horizontal wheels. These are "omniranges," which tell a wandering airplane pilot where he is, where he is heading, and how he can get elsewhere quickly if he needs to. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Administration announced that 300 of its projected 409 omniranges were in operation...
...better weapons were not new weapons. The tanks that panicked the South Korean troops and steadily rolled back U.S. infantrymen were World War II's squat, 30-ton Russian T-34s and twelve...
Norfolk Fiasco. Not till the war came did they try their hand at mass production. Near Norfolk, Va. they laid long, roadlike strips of concrete for foundations, then erected walls and roofs over them to form 1,600 squat houses that were little more than shacks. The development was a flop and about 230 of the units are now empty. More successful were 757 houses the Levitts built in Norfolk for the Navy. This success convinced them that low-priced houses could be profitably mass-produced. But the idea was temporarily shelved in 1943, when Bill Levitt joined the Seabees...