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...25th Hour. General Westmoreland, a brilliant "book" soldier, has been learning that lesson since he reached Saigon in August. A lean, greying six-footer, "Westy" was first captain of cadets at West Point (1936), saw World War II combat in Tunisia, Sicily, at Utah Beach on Dday. During the Korean War, he led the tough 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. A bird colonel at 30, he became the youngest major general in the Army in 1956. Max Taylor, the Army's Chief of Staff, pinned his second star on him. As superintendent of West Point, Westmoreland helped...
What is this? A joke? A nightmare? Insanity? It turns out to be a bit of all three, for headlines, history and the hospital itself are fictions of an ingenious Nazi conspiracy. The date is really June 1944. Only hours remain until Dday, and the man is a U.S. Army major (James Garner) privy to top-secret details of the Allied landings in Normandy. On a mission to Lisbon, Garner has been drugged and kidnaped, smuggled off to the Reich as a corpse. He awakes with six years of his life supposedly lost in amnesia. The story becomes credible...
Television serves best when it serves history, and last Friday night it made history as well. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, CBS Reports presented a program about Dday. It started by showing Omaha Beach as it looks today -bathers, volleyballs, open sky, and little boys playing in the rotted shells of LSTs. Then Dwight D. Eisenhower walked up from the water's edge and began to talk about...
...REPORTS (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). "DDay Plus 20 Years: Eisenhower Returns to Normandy," Ike's commemorative pilgrimage to the invasion beaches with his personal recollections of the events surrounding June...
Spectacles & Toilets. Tempting tourists to spend in 1964 are many special spectacles: Britain's Shakespeare quadricentennial, France's 20th anniversary of Dday, Japan's summer Olympics, and the New York World's Fair. Last week Pan American and TWA reported transatlantic reservations for the summer were 50% above last year...