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...wings now stationed in West Germany. When De Gaulle withdraws his forces from NATO on July 1, will his soldiers stay across the Rhine or go home? Understandably, the Germans are loathe to see the French forces pull out and leave a gap in the NATO armor. De Gaulle, of course, would like to leave French forces in Germany under the old occupation status. To gain leverage on the Germans, Paris has hinted that if French troops withdraw from West Germany, they might also withdraw from Berlin...
...minds--even Midwestern businessmen's minds--can change. Romney apparently had an idea sometime in the late '50s that Michigan could be saved from the twin evils of big labor (the Democratic Party) and big business (the Republican Party) by a knight-on-a-white-horse-in-shining-armor figure (Big George himself). He has stuck to it ever since...
...overseas since World War II, an historic occasion. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the $4,000,000 display of treasures is currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, winds up in April in Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum. Among the 155 objects, including textiles, armor and ceramics, are some 22 mountain peaks of art, esthetically rare and historically telling, which have culminated trends or determined the artistic course in Japan for 4,500 years. Among the greatest (see color pages) never before seen...
Died. Leonard Heinrich, 65, armor expert at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who in 1941, after a Pentagon call for something better than the antiquated "tin hat" helmet, designed the low-slung M-4 "steel pot," used in World War II, Korea and now in Viet Nam; of a heart attack; in Clarksville...
Allenby, in the opinion of many military experts, was the first commander of the 20th century to meet and solve the problems of combined operations on a large scale. Infantry, cavalry, artillery, armor, sea power, air power, guerrilla forces, intelligence units, political possibilities-all the main instruments of modern war were available to other regional commanders of World War I, but Allenby alone, according to the author, had the administrative imagination to employ them in symphony. To orchestrate his strategy, he assembled a staff of geniuses-men like T. E. Lawrence, Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, Lieut. Colonel Archibald Wavell. Allenby offered...