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Onto millions of French TV screens flashed the martial visage of Napoleon, resplendent in his braided uniform and two-cornered hat. Then the camera descended to bare thighs and legs furiously pumping a bicycle. Eh bien! Nappy was in a closely contested race, panting beside Marshals Ney, Murat and Massena. The Duke of Wellington was gaining fast amid cries that "The Englishman is right on our rear ends!" Worse, Nappy's teammates refused to help when his front tire went pffft. "If I win at. Waterloo, I'll give you a big share of the prize money," whined...
...Granovsky Street, a section that compares unfavorably with, say, Manhattan's West Side around Amsterdam Avenue and 81st Street. But the social life should be interesting. Among other tenants officially housed in the building are two potentates purged by Khrushchev, former Premier Vyacheslav Molotov and Red Army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, as well as several comrades who gave K. the push, including Suslov and Kosygin...
...Pearson can marshal a few more Conservative votes and get around another Diefenbaker filibuster, he may yet have his national flag - without calling for a vote of confidence and risking a general election...
...Died. Marshal Sergei Biryuzov, 60, Chief of the General Staff and third in command of the Soviet Army, one of Russia's top missile experts; in a plane crash that killed six other high-ranking officers; near Belgrade, where they were to celebrate the anniversary of Yugoslavia's liberation from the Nazis...
...advance ("Let the enemy worry about his flanks") often proved to be the best way not to spill blood but to spare it. Besides, if he had had his own way, World War II would have cost but one casualty: it would have been just a duel between Field Marshal Rommel and General Patton. "The armies could watch," he said. "If I killed him, I'd be the champ. If he killed me-well...