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...dismantled Stalin's apparatus of terror at home, the Soviets took their own word for the period from the title of a popular novel: The Thaw. The withdrawal of Soviet occupation forces (along with those of the Western allies) from Austria in 1955 seemed to belie the postwar axiom that Communists never give up any territory they hold. In an equally auspicious sign of improved East-West relations, Eisenhower traveled to a Geneva summit that year for the first face-to-face meeting between Soviet and American leaders since Truman had met Stalin at Potsdam...
Perception is reality. It has long been an axiom for soldiers. "All warfare is based on deception," said Sun Tzu, the great 4th century B.C. Chinese strategist whose prize pupil turned out to be Mao Tse-tung. The Greeks understood that principle when they set sail from Troy, leaving behind only a large wooden horse. Macduff knew it when he disguised his soldiers with branches from Birnam Wood as they marched against Macbeth. In World War II, the Allies created a phantom First U.S. Army Group, outfitted with rubber tanks and canvas landing barges (courtesy of the Shepperton movie studios...
Indeed, even looking at the histories through blue tinted lenses, one can hardly dispute the first half of the axiom. George W. Pierson has been affiliated with Yale since his 1922 graduation, and he is currently its Larned Professor of History emeritus. His-not-completely unbiased two-volume examination of his school's history from 1871 to 1937 consistently portrays the sons of Eli as vascillating on reforms, adhering to the traditional values until another institution, usually Harvard, paved...
There they go-vrooom!-tearing up 400 yards of Middle America. The two hot-rod drivers are enacting the Automobile Age's axiom of machismo: Speed thrills. Ten seconds later, the cars barrel across the finish line and the winner steps out, shaking her shoulder-length hair, allowing herself a tight, triumphant smile. Shirley Muldowney, dragstrip...
...paper entirely on her own merits, her son Frederick Field and his half brother Marshall Field V put the paper where she never got a job, the Sun-Times, up for sale. The decision "saddened" Fanning. But she reacted in a way that might serve as her axiom in giving rebirth to the Monitor. Said she: "I hate to see traditions die. But I do not believe in tradition for tradition's sake." -By William A. Henry...