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...Then the cadets and regular army soldiers marched the battered survivors of the anti-Communist Army of Liberation like P.W.s right through the capital's Sixth Avenue to a train that carried them back to their old headquarters near the Honduran border. That night official communiques saluted "the glorious gesture of the gentlemen cadets," and it was plain that the army thought...
After downing a lemonade, Colonel Nasser spoke triumphantly over Cairo radio: "Fate has stored this day for glory." Cairo radio itself waxed lyrical: "O Free and Glorious, it pleases the Egyptian radio at this historic moment, the moment of happiness, joy, dignity and freedom . . . to inform you . . . [that we have] cast away the last fetter on . . . glorious independence...
Brando in this show is one glorious meathead. The gone look, the reet vocabulary and the sexual arrogance are still the Brando brand of behavior. But for once the mannerisms converge, like symptoms, to point out the nature of the man who has them. The audience may never forget that Brando is acting, but it will know that he is doing a powerful acting...
...Reason Why, by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Best and most fascinating account to date of the most glorious snafu in military history: the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (TIME...
...bold signatures on the Declaration of L Independence registered the birth of a nation on July 4, 1776, as every Fourth of July orator is proud to relate. But the oratory frequently overlooks the fact that another Glorious Fourth-July 4, 1863-marked the climax of the battle to preserve the Union. In the west on that day, after a six-week siege, Confederate Vicksburg fell to General Ulysses S. Grant. And in the east, General Robert E. Lee's forces began their sad retreat south across the Potomac after three days of the biggest and bloodiest battle...