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Points & Counterpoints. The bridegroom was a member of the 78th ("Lightning") Division. He knew that if U.S. authorities learned of the marriage they would probably annul it and punish him. But with only 23 points, he faced another year in Berlin, so the chance seemed well worth taking...
Henry Stimson went home with his wife to West Hills, L.I., on his 78th birthday. The crowded week had brought him the Distinguished Service Medal, awarded by Harry Truman for 40 years of work, "exceptional in the history of the nation." There had been the big reception at Dumbarton Oaks, the farewell press conference, the final Cabinet meeting. Henry Stimson. correct and courtly as ever, loved...
...Rubble. It was too late. In the next instant there happened what many a Manhattanite had often predicted and feared. The ten-ton airplane, flying at an estimated speed of 225 m.p.h., crashed head-on into the north side of the Empire State Building at the level of the 78th and 79th floors...
Advancing in the Remagen bridgehead, Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army men brought the highway under artillery fire, then inched forward to machine-gun range. Thus they cut an important Nazi lateral communication line ori the east bank of the Rhine. Finally a 78th Division platoon, led by a staff sergeant, crossed the road in what one correspondent called "a gallant, old-fashioned infantry charge across 250 yards of coverless, fire-swept ground." At week's end the Yanks were astride the road along a six-mile stretch and had pushed a mile beyond...
...House, to nobody's surprise, reinstalled stocky Sam Rayburn as Speaker. The voters had given him 31 more Democrats (total: 243) than he had wound up the 78th Congress with; the Republicans were down 22 seats to an even...