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...flow of iron ore from Sweden. Sir Basil thinks somewhat more highly of the German generals. But even they, he admits, succeeded in their dramatic 1940 breakthrough on the Western front partly by accident. Their initial plan for the invasion of France was a right-flank wheel through Belgium along the lines of the 1914 Schlieffen plan, which might easily have been met and thwarted. The strategy was dropped, however, when a German major, flying in a snowstorm, was forced down in Belgium with a full set of war plans that was seized by the Allies. The substitute plan sent...
...Boston sported colorful curtains of kites over the Easter weekend. Kent State students were playing baseball last week on the green where their fatal confrontation with the National Guard took place nearly a year ago. Reprieved from the junk heap, the Delta Queen, last of the overnight, stern-wheel Mississippi riverboats, started a new "maiden" voyage to Cincinnati last week. All around the land Americans felt a sense of freshness and renewal. Perhaps nothing has changed, but spring makes it seem as though...
Goodyear, the biggest wheel in the business, swung over to safer, more durable and costlier "bias belted" tires. The company's $20 million advertising campaign, featuring sporty cars and racy women, created a runaway demand for its belted models. In 1968 more than 93% of new cars came with the old bias-ply tires; but 85% of the 1970 models were equipped with the new belted ones...
Eight hundred pages long and two inches thick, the book is an imposing object that should find many uses. It could serve, for instance, as a booster seat for Junior, a wheel chock for the family car, a dead weight that could instantly sink a prosperous 68-year-old author into the East River. Just don't try to read the thing. It isn't easy to transform one of the great creative adventures of human history into a load of bull, but Stone has turned the trick. The only fun his book provides is the chance...
Unless the Kremlin roulette wheel takes an unexpectedly fast turn, the other Politburo members are already too old to be serious contenders for power. No outsider is privy to the deliberations of the Politburo, and members most likely form different alliances on different issues. Even so, Brezhnev's main supporters appear to be Andrei Kirilenko, 64, who acts as his deputy, Ukrainian Party Boss Pyotr Shelest, 62, an ultra-hard-liner, and possibly Gennady Voronov, 60, Premier of the Russian Federation. Arvid Pelshe, 72, the Latvian party leader, and Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, 68, are both ailing and might possibly...