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TIME'S Wilmott Ragsdale wasn't sure you could do a loop in an Army glider until he went up in one at the new glider school at Twentynine Palms, California -suddenly felt his safety belt tighten and saw the desert above...
...because it is an imposition on India. It is not at India's request or consent that they are here. It is enough irritation that we were not consulted before being dragged into war-that is our original complaint-but to have brought American forces here is to tighten the stranglehold on us. I am not prejudiced against Americans and my thousands of friends in America, but it is my point that all these things are not happening at the invitation of India...
...earlier generation remembers a music professor who herded hundreds into his course by the simple expedient of giving A's. Of course the Overseers didn't like him, because he said "to the very dickens with them" whenever asked to tighten up. But he achieved his purpose, which was to see that none left Cambridge without having developed a taste for music...
...giving up territory unctuously to the Japanese but defending it bloodily against the British. He repudiated a suggestion by provincial-minded Isolationist Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho that the U.S. should seize by military aggression all nations in this Hemisphere (see p. 24). He helped the President tighten the screws on the Japanese by banning oil shipments to Japan. He accepted from the Japanese apologies and the offer of indemnity for the apparently accidental bombing of the 14-year-old gunboat Tutuila, a 370-ton tub which the Navy has stationed on the Yangtze River at Chungking. He recognized...
Randolph Field's Major Harold L. Mace, directing plane movements by radio, felt his hide tighten. In his earphones came the voice of a cadet pilot reporting that he was almost out of gas. "Look around and see if you can find a good field to land in," radioed Major Mace, with soothing professional calm. There was no reply. "What's your position?" the Major asked, with less calm. A puzzled voice came in his earphones. "I'm on the ramp in front of Hangar C, right here at Randolph Field...