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...Hughes-ovka" (TIME, Feb. 2) is a tour de force. There are a number of hamlets scattered all over the Kuban country and the North Caucasus with the prefix "Youz" or "Yuz" which is Turco-Tartar for "hundred" and denotes the original post of a Sotnja or a troop of one hundred Cossacks. The language of the Cossacks is full of words of Tartar origin and so are the names of their villages. Any bets...
...sinister warships and screaming planes and convoys of troop ships and sweating armies were governing the world. Almost everywhere, politics had ceased to have a life of its own, had become the creature of fighting force. But in Vichy politics still governed the disposition of the world's last great inactive fleet; in the Iberian Peninsula, politics still kept great bases immobilized...
...Five hundred big bombers for a starter, with as many more following in quick order, could play havoc with Japanese troop convoys-as a fraction of 500 did in the Strait of Macassar. > Five anti-aircraft regiments-again, one each at the do-or-die points-would give limited, local ground protection from Jap bombers, until more guns and crews arrived. But the only safe anti-aircraft maxim is "all you can get," and the far Pacific could use all the guns the U.S. can produce, man and ship for months to come. Anti-aircraft is second only to planes...
...essential part of a Senior's curriculum, the annual "field trip," said to be set for the first week in March, will carry the entire class by train, troop movements allowing, from the heart of the Ozarks to Boston...
...side by the sea, on the other by nearly impassable salt marshes. When he sallied out last week his first thrust was tentative&151;only ten miles. Then he turned on more power. North along the seacoast rumbled his well-trained columns&151;tanks, ugly but efficient troop carriers, skittering little "People's Cars" used as staff cars...