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Somewhere along the routine line, something had happened to Wedemeyer. He began to study economics, foreign affairs, history and the new concept of air power. A mind that can be as cold and rigorous as a steel trap had found something to bite on. In 1936, Wedemeyer (now a captain after 15 years as lieutenant) graduated from the General Staff School at Leavenworth with such high honors that he was chosen to attend the German General Staff School, Berlin's famed Kriegsakademie...
...shattered little town and its inhabitants, is no less devoted to human meaning. As he shows them, old men. women and children, draining townward out of their hill caves, clambering bewildered among their demolished homes. or being extracted from under the rubble of a late-exploding mine or trap, war takes on great and complex meanings. And in one long passage, free of comment, while the screen multiplies the Etruscan...
King Farouk, touched by a story in a Cairo newspaper, did his bit toward a serviceman's rehabilitation. The story: Scottish sapper David Bell, sightless and handless since a booby-trap explosion near El Alamein in 1942, hoped to start life anew with a tobacco shop in his hometown, Edinburgh. Farouk's bit: he sent Bell 25,000 choice Egyptian cigarets with which to set up shop...
Silver Lining. In Juniper, N.B., Fred Grant, annoyed by crows, set out a box trap for them, caught instead an escaped silver fox which dropped a litter of five in the trap...
...booby trap which Davis knew he might expect was a move by some packers to use the new subsidies to bid cattle prices still higher. But Davis was ready for such shenanigans. He sternly warned that if cattle ceilings were pushed through the roof, OPA would prepare a plan to allocate cattle to packers on a quota basis...