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...desert of western India. There the battle was being waged by bearded Sikhs wearing khaki turbans, tough, flat-faced Gurkhas, who carry a curved knife known as a kukri in their belts, and many other ethnic strains. Mostly, the action was confined to border thrusts by both sides to straighten out salients that are difficult to defend...
Dubious Material. Classification is a byproduct of America's rise to world power. As the U.S. made its far-flung commitments in World War II, secret military information began to accumulate. The cold war speeded up the process. In 1953 President Eisenhower tried to straighten out the classification chaos by issuing an executive order. It broke down classification into three categories that are still used today: top secret, secret and confidential. Top secret is intended to cover information whose disclosure would result in "exceptionally grave damage to the nation." This means revealing critical military or defense plans or secret...
...Billy, supposedly because he could hit like a billy club, he was soon getting into scrapes with the Man. Once when he was 14, a white man called him nigger. Joe called the man cracker. As Joe recalls it now, "The man said, 'Come here, boy, and I'll straighten you out.' I told him, 'You come here,' and he did and, man, I straightened that fella out." Mamma?who forbade him to play football because she thought it was too dangerous?had a talk with Joe. "Son," she said, "if y'all can't get along with the white...
...Holy -! and a - during the spaghetti. In fact, I could only see the faintest spark behind his Coca-Cola green glasses when she patted his shiny bald dome. I knew, though, that somewhere behind those shades Luke was figuring exactly how many kilowatts it would take to straighten out that Afro and melt those buttons. "She is a nice girl," he hissed to me. "But she is a Wasp...
Words of Advice. Mike's academy looks much like an ordinary gym, with boxing, judo and karate lessons, plus hockey and football games usually going on. What is unusual is that so many fathers take lessons along with their sons. Mike himself is always on hand, seeking to straighten out the father who is too competitive with his son, too demanding, or even too shy. He constantly offers words of praise or advice to the kids. "Control, control," he says. "Think what you're doing! If you're the boss of you, you can become the boss...