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...That would be a tremendous Soviet victory. We do not intend to fall into that trap. I do not propose to strip this country of its allies in the face of the Soviet danger...
Lieut. Colonel Wilson Hawkins of Pascagoula, Miss., commanded the battalion from a grasshopper observation plane skimming overhead. The Pattons, each with a snarling tiger painted on the front, rumbled north out of a dry riverbed. Just short of Uijongbu, the column ran into trouble. Trying to bypass a tank trap, one Patton bogged down in a marshy field. Two more got stuck trying to pull it out. A fourth hit a mine; there was a deafening blast, a big puff of smoke and a cry over the radio: "Man wounded...
...support the nation's ground forces. .Lodge is no Air Force flyboy, but an armored-force veteran of World War II. He fought harder than any Republican for quick Senate approval of the Administration's troops-to-Europe program. But will those troops be moving into a trap, without air protection, as isolationists like Missouri's James Kem had argued...
...true to that spirit. The rest of the cast stay pretty well within the confines of the script. Their acting is spirited, and a credit to themselves and to director Peter Temple, who comes as close to making the play live as possible. Especially engaging are Jerry Kilty as Trap Door, the scoundrel, and Robert Fletcher as Laxton, the lecher. Many of the minor characters are also amusing caricatures of London town-types; one of these is Jack Dapper, the fop, played by Nick Benton (who turns up again...
Student complaints that 20 Walker Street is a "fire trap" brought an investigation by the Cambridge Building Board and an order for the college to take necessary steps immediately after the school year ends...