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There were living things in the valley: herds of cattle and horses and sheep, with dogs and Arabs tending them. And above them there was the occasional flutter of a sparrow or the swoop of a hawk. Over head the sky was bright with patches of creamy cloud. This was a valley to which men could come for peace...
...Japan at war. As an Argentine commercial attaché, 33-year-old Ramón Muñiz Lavalle was in Hong Kong when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He went to Tokyo just before Bataan fell. From the streets of the Japanese capital, he saw Doolittle's raiders swoop low over the housetops a year ago (see p. 30). Japanese officials received him and confided in him as a representative of a "cooperating" nation. But Lavalle himself was not neutral: he was against the Japs, against the Axis. After ten wartime months in Japan, he left...
...Finance Committee, headed by General Foods Vice President William M. Robbins, whom he took away from a $1-a-year WPB job. Handsome William Robbins, 41, who specialized in sales before he went to Washington, has the world's biggest selling job on his hands now: in one swoop he must raise 56 times as much money as big General Foods took in during...
Giant Lancasters, attacking the northern industrial heart of Italy, left "colossal" fires blazing at Turin and made their first swoop over Mussolini's naval base at La Spezia. R.A.F. bombers by night, U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators by day, flew over western Europe. They gave Hamburg its 95th plastering. They roared through the valley of the Ruhr. They swarmed over the U-boat base at Lorient, where ten acres of the naval arsenal have now been reported destroyed. Apparently unable to pierce the eleven-foot roofs of the concrete sub pens, the Allied bombers have concentrated on softer targets...
...near Leningrad, is killed by a Nazi bullet in front of the camera. Then a plane, trailing black smoke, crashes to earth. With the terrible veracity of death the film ranges the long battlefront: a Soviet submarine sights a ship through its periscope and torpedoes her; Soviet ski troops swoop down a hill under fire and some fall. A company of guerrillas storm a village. When the battle ends, they angrily execute a captured traitor...