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...naval air power had stretched its reach the full width of the Pacific. U.S. carrier-borne planes dominated the skies 6,000 miles west of the American mainland. For the first time, they roared up & down the China coast. If a landing in China was, as Fleet Admiral Nimitz said, "still an objective," then last week's forays by Vice Admiral John S. McCain's fast carrier task force showed that the aerial umbrella to cover it was already available...
...similarly injured. Betsey Barton made this discovery at Manhattan's unique Institute for the Crippled and Disabled.* There she found an organization with many disabled people on its staff, using many kinds of special training methods. For example, there are replicas of bus steps, curbs placed just the width of a city street apart, with lights timed like traffic lights. Hardest trick for Betsey Barton was getting into...
...separate cars, the Churchills and the Roosevelts motored up the steep hills to Quebec's Citadel, an ancient fortress, surrounded by a deep moat, its entrance barred with iron chains the width of a man's forearm...
...Readers Basilico, Jaffe, et al. never hear, then, of the great Finn MacCool (TIME, Nov. 1) ? He was well known to have lepped the width of Ireland (115 Sassenach miles) in three jumps, and could outrun a hare or a stag itself, and he merely moving his legs gently, the way he'd be restoring his circulation...
Trimmed by Type Expert Gilbert Powderly Farrar, E & P's overall page size will be down one inch in width and two inches in length (to approximate TIME size) but will lose practically no content space. Streamliner Farrar's solution: compressing by lopping a full point off type (from 8 pt. on 8½ slug...