Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND THE WORLD, by Philip L. Geyelin. A perceptive, sometimes tartly irreverent account of how L.B.J. has fared in foreign affairs, by the Wall Street Journal's diplomatic correspondent...
...Yankee invasion is no joking matter to European automakers. U.S.-owned or controlled companies now account for about a third of all cars built in Europe. G.M.'s Vauxhall, British Ford and Chrysler-controlled Rootes Motors together produce nearly 50% of all British-made cars. Like the recent merger of France's Renault and Peugeot in France, the B.M.C.-Jaguar combine, to be known as British Motor (Holdings) Ltd., is geared to combat the U.S.'s advances in Europe...
...lieutenant colonel, who at 24 had been a major general in the Civil War, got into such a predicament in the first place, and especially why the Sioux pounced on him with such ferocity, has always been debated. Now these two small but impressively researched books offer a concise account of what actually happened...
Military Stupidity. Novelist-Historian Mari Sandoz (Old Jules, Cheyenne Autumn), who died in March at 68, confirms this in her admirable account of the battle. Like most historians, she agrees that Custer was guilty of military stupidity when he divided his attacking force of about 650 men into three groups and placed them too far apart to support each other effectively. The Sioux, recovering from their surprise, made short work of Custer and the 212 cavalrymen whom he led. His last stand probably lasted no longer than 20 minutes. Afterward, the bodies of the soldiers were stripped and mutilated...
...English reporter Edward Crankshaw of The Observer learned about the Sino-Soviet jockeying of 1957 and 1958 from "Eastern European contacts." His account, on which Rendell's theories are based, is in his book Moscow and Peking...