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...during those four days of fighting. When the 1st Division retired from the southern ridge called Djebel Berda at the end of the fourth day, it was to prepare for a fresh offensive. By that time the men were so tired that, as one battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Ben Sternberg, put it, "if you'd told a man a German was on the other side of a rock he wouldn't have given a damn." But, the Colonel added, "we could have held that stinking ground...
...Army doctors discovered the organism of pneumonia (George Miller Sternberg, almost simultaneously with Pasteur in 1881), of tooth decay (Puerto Rican Major Fernando Emilio Rodriguez, 1921), trench fever, three types of dysentery...
...Army doctors wrote the first U.S. pharmacopoeia (1778) and the first U.S. bacteriology text (Sternberg...
...Ainu), some 16,000 of them, inhabit northern islands of Japan. A few live on the half-Soviet island of Sakhalin. How they got there is one of anthropology's darkest mysteries. Last week the Smithsonian Institution reported to the U.S. the findings of Russian Anthropologist Lev Yakolevich Sternberg...
Most scientists agree that the Ainus are relics of an early Caucasian or "proto-Nordic" stock, somewhat less evolved than modern Western man. Anthropologist Sternberg suspects that many thousands of years ago the Ainus migrated to Japan via more southerly islands-perhaps the Philippines, the Moluccas, Oceania. His evidence is that the Ainus, unlike any other tribes in northern Asia...