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...courage and conscience of your humane leadership" must have seemed routine to F.D.R., next to the uninhibited assurance that "You know how I have felt about you as a symbol of manliness . . . the symbol that is forever one of our great national possessions-utterances-as rare as they are precious, that will live forever in the amber of history." If F.D.R. ever squirmed, he never showed it. His small contribution to this massive collection is made up mostly of delighted thanks for Frankfurter's fawning and requests for his help: "Tell me what to write-dictate right...
...week's end they had gained nearly 500 precious yards inside the Citadel, pinning an enemy force of about 350 men to three small strongholds. The most important advance came when low-crouching U.S. Marines swept onto the long south wall overlooking the Perfume riverbank, a position that finally gave the allies sturdy positions on each wall of the Citadel. The Marines celebrated by triumphantly running up the Stars and Stripes in full view of modern Hué, across the river. The death toll was among the most expensive of the war: nearly 450 allied dead, including some...
...Dean Rusk's precious statement that North Korea should "cool it" must have really scared Kim II Sung out of his wits. I'll bet he has sleepless nights and that "blah" feeling...
...circle the moon in an 80-mile-high equatorial orbit while the LM descends to the surface below. Setting down the LM anywhere but near the equator would require change-of-plane maneuvers-both for landing and returning-that would consume large additional amounts of the craft's precious fuel. Once a launch time has been set, scientists will pick a site where the sun will be at least 7° and no more than 20° above the horizon in back of the LM crew when they swoop down. From this position, the sun will illuminate the surface...
...World War II, almost everyone knows that the U.S. broke Japan's highest level "Purple Code" before Pearl Harbor. But precious few realize what the breakthrough entailed. The code was based on a rotor system-mazes of wires connecting two or more alphabetic rotors that change ciphers at every punch of a keyboard. The use of two rotors permits 676 different cipher positions; five rotors provide 11,881,376 codes...