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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your article, "DDay in Europe" [June 8]. It brought back many memories for me. I was a member of the 502nd Parachute Regiment of the loist Airborne Division, which dropped in the area of St. Martin-de-Varreville on Dday...
...only after Thompson pulled into the basement-ramp area of the courthouse at Baton Rouge that Earl Long realized that he had been tricked. "What's going on?" he cried. Thompson told him about the commitment papers. "Goddam! Goddam you all," screamed Earl. "You all are doing it again. Goddam you, I'll get you! I'll get all of you!" Turning wildly to a deputy whose father holds a state job with the Department of Corrections, Long yelled: "Your old man just lost his job!" As Earl thundered and cried, a crowd of incredulous onlookers pressed...
...colonies grow into nations, and among British colonies of the igth century Canada led the way to nationhood. After the American Revolution, an estimated 40,000 Loyalist refugees fled the hated republicanism of the new United States and found refuge in Canada-an influx of British stock to an area until then mostly populated by French habitants. In 1837 a brace of piddling rebellions-one led by French-Canadian Louis Papineau, the other by British-Canadian William Lyon Mackenzie-startled London and led to the establishment of "responsible government," with the Canadian colonies handling their own internal affairs through...
...third of the Soviet Union is officially closed to tourists (the U.S. has retaliated by keeping an equal area closed to Russians), but the traveling choice is still wide. The tourist can visit 27 Soviet cities on any of 45 Intourist itineraries, ranging from five to 23 days. The main travel circuit includes Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi (the Eastern-flavored capital of Soviet Georgia), and the seaside resorts of the Black Sea (Sochi, Sukhumi, Yalta). More adventurous tourists can go to Riga, capital of Latvia; Irkutsk, the burgeoning capital of eastern Siberia; or far east to Tashkent and Alma...
After World War II Thomas moved into international Rotary as a director, won quick recognition as an articulate Rotary spokesman and idea man. As Rotary's president, he will devote his time to developing more "people-to-people contact" among nations. Says he: "There is a tremendous area for the development of friendship and good will on a personal basis-something no government can accomplish. We should not be concerned with the techniques of peace, but with the will to peace...