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...scared me") who, at 27, and just 3½ years after their marriage, became Private James Dougal McRacken, a soldier in the U.S. Army's tough Normandy-landing goth Division. On the night of Aug. 5, 1944, McRacken and eleven other G.I.s crouched behind a tank as the 90th approached Mayenne on its drive toward Paris. Retreating German troops had blown up two of three bridges across the Mayenne River to stop the Americans; the Germans planned to dig in for an all-out fight for the town. Only the 150-ft.-long Savings Bank Bridge remained...
...Presidents (and older than any President lived to be), Uvalde, Texas' own John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, turned 92 and didn't care who knew it. Gone were the cigars and bourbon and branch water ("striking a blow for liberty") that he gave up just before his 90th birthday. He is still quick to provide visitors with the wherewithal to strike their own blows, but his current personal quaff is just plain grapefruit juice...
...into the Congo except through the U.N. Toward 1 o'clock one morning last week, a modified version of Wadsworth's resolution, presented by Ceylon and Tunisia, was put to the vote. Stubbornly calling for outright repudiation of Hammarskjold's acts, Zorin cast Russia's 90th veto in the Security Council. Wadsworth immediately called for an emergency General Assembly meeting under the "Uniting for Peace" rule, which permits the Assembly to take over vital issues that have been stalled in the Security Council...
...Communist lexicon, Nikita Khrushchev is clearly the apostle and chief promoter of peaceful coexistence and the calculated thaw. On the 90th anniversary of Lenin's birth last week, when "the Lenin of today" was off vacationing on the Black Sea coast, the official mouthpiece was Finnish-born Presidium Member Otto Kuusinen, 78, the hardbitten old Bolshevik who was one of Lenin's commissars in the revolution's early days. Kuusinen told an audience of some 20,000 at Moscow's Lenin Central Stadium that "war would be insane" with mankind's new destructive weapons...
...Advocate announced yesterday a contest for the design of its front door. The by-laws of the magazine require that the Bow St. door be repainted every fifteenth year; this is the 90th anniversary. The winner will become the Curator of the magazine for the next fifteen years...