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This is why buck passing among equals is a lesser form of the art. After Pearl Harbor, Admiral Kimmel, commander of the U.S. Fleet, and Major General Short, commander of the Army's Hawaiian department, had a field day blaming each other and Washington for unpreparedness, but since all were culpable, there was no real art in the show. The same fandango is going on in Spain these days, with the generals on trial for treason frantic to pin last year's failed coup on each other. The buck may also be passed to superiors, as Nuremburg made...
...though, is usually a young man's profession. For Bellow at 67 the proposition of extended travel in unknown realms is a questionable one. Indeed, judging by The Dean's December, one wonders just how for from part the good ship Bellow gets, or whether it ever leaves the harbor...
When the World Airways DC-10 skidded off the runway at Logan International Airport and into Boston Harbor, the aircraft's nose section was sheared off like the tip of a roughly clipped cigar. Don Welsh, 25, a dental student at Tufts University, who was seated in the front cabin, suddenly found himself covered with spray and looking out at the harbor. Soon he and other passengers were pulling the flight crew out of the water. Welsh saw someone splashing ten or 20 yards to his left, well out of his reach. Then the person disappeared. Welsh told...
Benacerraf shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1980 with George Snell of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, and Jean Dausset of the University of Paris. He received the award for his work on genetics and the immune system, which protects animals against dangerous substances...
...reported Japanese proposal that the U.S. demilitarize Pearl Harbor: "This country is. . .ready to pull the trigger if the Japs do anything . . . That's the first time that any damn Jap has told us to get out of Hawaii...