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...other anniversaries of this season, such as next month's 40th anniversary of V-E day, will have about them a certain triumphal air for Americans. They will celebrate not merely the fact that the U.S. won but that they fought on the side that incontestably should have won. The outcome of World War II seemed to validate American power as an instrument of virtue in the world...
...paperback book costs a bit more now, $4.95. The 40th-anniversary edition has a new title, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, and a co-author, Michael B. Rothenberg, 58, a Seattle pediatrician and child psychiatrist at the University of Washington who has signed on to update the book periodically until the end of this century. Despite four revisions, the core of the book, the psychosocial recommendations to parents, is basically unchanged. Every now and then a child-development expert grumbles that Spock has not kept up. But the author says, with much justice, that he simply...
Last week about 350 American and German veterans and former Belgian resistance fighters gathered at the site to mark the 40th anniversary of an action that may have shortened the war by disrupting Hitler's defenses. Said retired Lieut. Colonel Leonard Engeman, 78, who led the U.S. forces that captured the bridge: "We have not come back to gloat, but to commemorate a moment that was rather special, and to make clear that never again must we ever go to war against one another...
What's more, the defeat meant the Crimson squad--which just a month ago sat atop the Ivy standings--will most likely not travel to a postseason tournament for the 40th straight year...
...past two year, contributors across the country have created banner segments in accordance with he scheme "What I would miss most in a nuclear war." According to organizers, each state will bring its finished product to Washington on August 4, the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The 50 ribbons will be tied together and strung around the government complex in a weekend-long demonstration that has been approved by the Pentagon through the General Services Administration...