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Show HIGHLIGHTS in the week's news HOROSHO That was the word the Russians shouted through the streets of their towns and villages as they greeted the news of the American campaign opening up in Africa. "Horosho" in Russian is the equivalent of "swell." KILLED In Egypt, Peter Wood, son of Lord Halifax, British Ambassador Ambas-sador to the U. S., was killed in action. REVERSAL Capt. Fred Eldridge, editor of The Roundup, newspaper for American forces in China, Burma Bur-ma and India, urged sarcastically that "all you guys sweating it out up in Assam and China start writing letters to the States and sending little packages of goodies to buck up home morale" He pointed to the "terrible" hardships of gas rationing ration-ing tnd the $25,000 limit on salaries. |