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...officer trainees competed in a number of individual and relay events, including several over the obstacle course, before joining in a 13 to 13 softball game which was called at twilight...
...Tunisia, an ungainly aircraft whose name once spelled terror passed into the twilight. Germany's famed Stuka (Junkers 87) had paid the penalty of age. The Stuka was no longer a dreaded hawk but cold turkey for British and American fliers, who had command of the air and knew what to do with...
...Twilight Zone. A decade ago the organization of foremen would have been unthinkable. Yet with the rapid rise of unionism, the oldtime position of the foreman has quietly been revolutionized. Much of his oldtime authority has been whittled away by union shop stewards. His pay (in Detroit between $4,000 and $6,000) has not gone up as fast as that of the workers. Says Keys: "The production guys have a union. The fellows at the top look out for themselves. No one looks out for the foremen. We are strictly in the middle...
...civilian notions of tenderness . . . One could easily envisage the disentanglement of a sergeant's gear from feminine articles, helmet recovered from a web of stockings, rifle extracted from a flimsy slip." A few days of special training in friendly, sheltered coves, and then "the filing into craft by twilight, each man in his proper place and fighting order...
...discipline him. In one recent case, when an employer announced that either men must work on New Year's Day to fulfill pre-arranged schedules or else take four days off, the union at once objected. Moreover, the very strength of some unions has created a well-recognized twilight zone of authority within plants: the foreman seldom dares discharge a man; the union's "shop steward" is himself powerless to discipline a worker because his own job is dependent on his popularity...