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...Three committee appointed at Yalta - U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov - failed to agree in , its first three meetings. But the talks continued: after Yalta, Moscow was in no mood to brush off the U.S. and Britain...
...born Francis Guy faced the fact that he would never get rich at his tailoring-and-dyeing business. To pad out his income, he tried an odd assortment of avocations-including verse writing, mixing toothache remedies and painting landscapes. None of these efforts made him rich, but his paint brush eventually attracted attention. Last week at Chicago's Art Institute, 125 years after his death, Francis Guy (1760-1820) was being referred to as a grandfather of U.S. landscape painting...
...applicants who pass an unexacting physical and the who pass an unexacting physical and the more difficult Eddy test. In regard to the latter, Perkins stated that "any Harvard man who does satisfactory work here in mathematics or physics should expect to pass. He may, however, need to brush up on the details of radio shopwork...
...road to Manila, the Jap was still fading backward faster than any U.S. optimist had dared to hope. Major General Oscar W. Griswold's XIV Corps swept ahead, the 37th (Ohio) Division under Major General Robert S. Beightler on the left, and the 40th under Major General Rapp Brush on the right. With its flank protected by the Buckeyes, the 40th rolled into Clark Field in time for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to announce its capture on his 65th birthday. With more than a dozen runways, Clark was the greatest air base in the Southwest Pacific...
...Higinio Morinigo had dined in Manhattan with a director of Union Oil. As Morinigo hoisted his food, he dropped a hint: oil gushed in the Bolivian Chaco, why not in the Paraguayan Chaco? The hint became a project. Soon three Union Oil geologists hacked their way through the Chaco brush. They reported that the region had a geological structure characteristic of oil fields...