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...week's end, De Gaulle and Ike clattered up to Gettysburg in an Army helicopter for a brief visit to the Eisenhower farm and a trip to the adjoining national monument that is a shrine to professional soldiers the world over: the Gettysburg battlefield. From Gettysburg they flew to Camp David for further talk. Just how much progress was made toward ironing out what minor differences still divide the U.S. and France will probably not come clear until President de Gaulle himself plays host to the summit session in Paris...
...Italians," says Field Marshal Erich von Manstein in his memoirs of Stalingrad, simply "disappeared from the battlefield." In the most decisive battle of World War II, the Russians, breaking through west of the city on the front held by 220,000 men of Mussolini's Italian Expeditionary Force among others, hurtled on across the Don steppes and never finally stopped till they got to Berlin. In six weeks of catastrophic rout and retreat, the Italians' ten divisions suffered casualties officially estimated at 115,000 men. Of these, they evacuated 30,000 wounded and listed 11,000 as dead...
...human values. Without this military strength our efforts to provide a shield for freedom and to preserve and strengthen peace would be futile. We are determined that in quality and power this force shall forever be kept adequate for our security needs until the conference table can replace the battlefield as the arbiter of world affairs...
Creative Urge. General Foods is not above jumping into a new product that has already won medals on the consumer battlefield-even if a competitor holds the medals. When Swanson's originated the TV Dinner, and began plugging the new convenience, General Foods followed it into the frozen-dinner field. Swanson, now owned by Campbell Soup Co., has sold a quarter of a billion TV Dinners...
...kept telling them I was building." shrugs Clark, winner of a battlefield commission in Europe during World War II and captain of U.S.C.'s 1947 team. "What else could I say?" Clark was true to his word. He went as far away as the famed muscle factories of Pennsylvania to land Tackle Dan Ficca (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.). But Clark's prize finds were waiting at Mount Carmel High School, right in Southern Cal's own home town of Los Angeles. As high-school All-Americas, Mike and Marlin McKeever got offers from some...