Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover story, analyzing the U.S. arsenal, was written by Burton Pines. Frank Merrick, who also did our cover story on then Defense Secretary James Schlesinger in February 1974, wrote the profile of Brown, while Writer Robert Goldstein brought the old dogfaces, Willie and Joe, into the nuclear age...
...room and twice passing him over for promotion. But many on Capitol Hill shared his dream of an all-nuclear fleet, no matter what the cost. At their insistence, the Navy moved him to better quarters and eventually promoted him to full admiral. Since 1965, when he reached retirement age, his congressional supporters have forced the Navy to reclassify him every two years as a retired officer recalled to active duty...
White-haired Fernand Braudel fingers a 13th century Florentine coin, its bronze surface green with age, as he muses on the grand passion of his life: the Mediterranean. "Everything about the Mediterranean has pleased me-the sea, the people, the food. It is a passion that burns you up. And nowadays, for me, the Mediterranean is too strong, too burning. It's all over...
...Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations. It was the first major American recognition of French Historian Braudel-perhaps the most influential historian now at work and the author of the magnificent 1,375-page book, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip...
...Nietzsche wrote many years earlier, "who did nothing but shake the tree when the fruit was ripe. But just look at the tree he shook!" The significance of Lindbergh was as complicated as his personality. His exploit, proclaimed precisely because he achieved it alone, served to promote a new age of aviation technology in which men and women would be increasingly absorbed into teams, into bureaucracies. Lindbergh rode the Spirit of St. Louis on the updrafts of the future, but in many ways he was one of the last individualists. Even in the '20s, he represented a kind...