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...this point, Harriet Bunker's activities had neatly paralleled the fictional behavior of Emma Atkins, wife of the hero of The Ugly American, who taught the natives of the imaginary Asian village of Chang 'Dong to manufacture long-handled brooms using local reeds, and for her good deed was honored with a village shrine. But Harriet Bunker's housewifely crusade received real support from high quarters...
...battleship Tirpitz. Of the 611-man assault team, only 442 survived. But St. Nazaire was shattered by blasts that went off at unexpected intervals for the next 2½ days. Normandie dock could not be repaired for the next ten years. The commando raid, said Churchill later, was "a deed of glory intimately involved in high strategy...
...calm, postwar appraisal of Historian C.E. Lucas Phillips, the great raid remains a deed of glory-the achievement of an improbable military objective by an unbeatable combination of painstaking plans and inspired improvisation. Lucas Phillips reports it all, from the first casual conversations of Lord Louis Mountbatten with his staff to the final, hush-hush training exercise off the Scilly Isles, from the apparently aimless bombing raid on St. Nazaire to the escape attempts of captured British commandos...
Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo has done many harsh acts and some stupid ones in his 30 years in power. But perhaps none has ever matched the deed he was accused of last week. The Organization of American States listened to detailed evidence that Trujillo personally plotted last month's nearly successful assassination attempt against Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. The OAS found the case persuasive enough to vote 19 to 0 (with the Dominicans and the Venezuelans abstaining) to judge the evidence...
Immediately after the deed was done, Mrs. Davis publicly swore that, if she could prevent it, Newhouse would never get another share of Post stock. Then she set out to prevent it. In the ensuing weeks, Post officers, led by Helen Bonfils Davis, approached all of the four charitable trusts that together held the outstanding 65% of the stock. Last week Mrs. Davis triumphantly announced her first success: for $5,100,000, the Post had bought a 21% bloc from one of the four trusts...