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...plane and glider of sudden starting shock, and smoothly eases the load into the air. Even the towrope is of stretchy nylon. One plane can accumulate a glider train by successive passes at the uprights. Each glider has its separate rope, snubbed individually at varying lengths, to the tow plane's tail...
...Lieut. Maslov commanded a British Valentine (16-ton) tank. He had trouble pronouncing Valentine, but liked the tank. He had a snub nose, tow hair and knew English. He talked of Dickens, Chaucer and Sterne by the hour. He and others in his tank regiment gave Russian Correspondent Ilya Ehrenburg the best measure yet recorded of Allied aid to the U.S.S.R.: "Were our front only 100 miles long, we could say we have enough British tanks." The Russian front is 2,000 miles long...
Sixteen members of the Outing Club with 35 guests in tow set off to Houghton Pond in the Blue Hills from the stops of Widener last Saturday to celebrate a non-explosive Fourth. Entertained with a soft-ball game, swimming, and a three-group like up Blue Hill, and nourished by Howie Oedel '43 and his two assistants, Win Bernard '43 and Bob Townsend '43, the trip ended successfully at 7 o'clock with a bus ride back to Cambridge...
...plane could drop gliders at Cleveland, St. Louis and Omaha, and still arrive in Los Angeles with gliders in tow, picked up at Amarillo and Salt Lake City. Troop carriers could be dropped off behind the front lines with full equipment, including tanks, could be picked up and reloaded at home base without the tow plane's ever touching ground...
...outside of clear-cut insanity) are epilepsy, migraine and sleepwalking-all disorders especially dangerous on board ship. About five boys in every 100 are discharged at once; borderline cases are kept for a three-week observation period. Navy doctors see to it that every rejected recruit is taken in tow by social workers at home, helped to fit into useful civilian activity...