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...name rhymes with Joyce) was born 62 years ago into a Milwaukee banking family headed by his grandfather, a German immigrant. He studied at Cornell University, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1936, and won the Bronze Star in World War II for action in the crossing of the Rhine. Back home, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor, helped organize an anti-Joseph McCarthy drive called Operation Truth, and was defeated in a campaign for the Senate in 1952. But two years later, Reuss stumped Wisconsin's fifth district, making speeches in his fluent German, and was elected...
...went on the air." This time Hitler's frantic radio orders gave Eisenhower "the master plan straight from the Fuehrer." With the Nazis trapped at Falaise, Eisenhower sent General Patton plunging east toward Germany. "Without Ultra," Winterbotham argues, "we might have had to meet the Russians on the Rhine instead of the Elbe, and they would have stayed...
...bottled bounty comes in the form of domestic "varietals"-wines made principally from the grape named on the label. To the averagely educated palate-but not the shrunken purse -they are hard to distinguish from those of Burgundy, Bordeaux and the Rhine. Selling at $2 or less a fifth, elegantly bottled and labeled, they are the products of more than a decade of intensive experimentation by oenologists and vintners who selected, planted and cosseted the grapes in order to make serious wines nationally available at a good price...
...June 5, 1944), W.W. II had turned around entirely. For six weeks the outnumbered Germans had been losing the war across France and Belgium faster than the Allied armies, running short of fuel, could win it. Lieut. General George Patton in the south lay only 100 miles from the Rhine and, like Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in the north, he was convinced that he could reach Berlin in a matter of weeks...
Awesome Detail. According to Montgomery, these invaders from the sky would capture and hold five key bridges (and the 64 miles of road connecting them) until Monty's Second Army had blitzed across the last bridge at Arnhem, which spanned the Lower Rhine, and driven into Germany. All the bridges except the one at Arnhem were swiftly captured. But a week and a day after it began, Operation Market-Garden phased into a withdrawal, ironically coded Operation Berlin. By then the Allies had lost 17,000 troops, or 1% times the casualties of the Normandy invasion. "The most momentous...