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...Hurs' Robin Hood leader, the lecherous, pock-marked Pir of Parago (TIME, June 15). Coordinating land and air forces, the British dropped parachutists on the edge of the Sind desert. From there they moved west toward the Hurs' jungle stronghold in Makhi Dhand, the "honey swamp." A column of camelry moved in from the north. From the east, Punjab constabulary in assault boats drew the trap tighter. A motorized infantry unit completed boxing the jungle...
...symphony had practically no structure or coherence, nor did it make up for this with strong melody or color. The themes were commonplace and thinly stretched out over 70 minutes of pointless rambling music. Occasionally the familiar Shostakovitch brilliance and poignancy would glimmer for a while through the swamp, but never for long. For the most part, he had loosely strung together a collection of movie-scenario devices which might have been an effective background to a documentary film but were powerless in themselves to suggest more than confusion and weariness of spirit...
Where the huge shipyard stands today there was only a swamp when smart Stephen D. Bechtel and natty John A. McCone took it over in the fall of 1940. Their first job was driving 60,000 pilings into the mud (a world's record for one job), but that was easy enough after their experience with Henry Kaiser on Boulder Dam and the San Francisco Bay bridge. The real problem was finding and training 40,000 workmen, less than 1% of whom had ever worked in a shipyard before...
From the sandy shore and the swamp beyond, artillery flamed. A U.S. gunner named Johnny Jones plunked two 75-mm. shells into a transport at the water line. It sank. Other transports were sunk by artillerymen working under fire from Jap destroyers and a cruiser or two. Barges loaded with Jap soldiers were battered into bloody, waterlogged messes. But farther up the shore the Japs got ashore and moved down, attacking the defenders as more invaders landed behind them...
Both theories were reconciled convincingly last week by Alvin Leonard Lugn of the University of Nebraska. In the Journal of Geology he explained that the vines grew in spirals and were buried naturally amid pulpy swamp vegetation and sands. Then the beavers came and dug out the rotting material inside the corkscrews to make burrows with "prefabricated" walls...