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...America, Cuba seems the underdog, and suspicions of "Yankee imperialism" are easily recalled. But the Latinos' natural sympathy with the Cuban revolution has been shaken by Khrushchev's rocket-rattling, and by the discovery that the agents of Communism and subversion are already spreading from the Cuban beachhead to the interior of the hemisphere. Last week the Organization of American States unanimously approved a Peruvian proposal to consider the threat of Soviet intervention at a meeting of Latin American foreign ministers at San Jose, Costa Rica...
...having the strength to penetrate all of Africa, Soviet and Chinese agents are trying to establish a beachhead in Guinea. Ethiopia and Morocco are also being probed. Peking may possibly have a long-range plan in the next two decades to export some 5,000,000 Chinese to Latin America, Cuba and North Africa as a prelude to a global revolutionary thrust...
Right Flank March. A month later, he put Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower piggyback in the cockpit of a P-51 and took him on a go-minute ride along the beachhead ("Eisenhower was very pleased, but we both caught hell from the Joint Chiefs of Staff"). During the great armored-tank drive across Europe, Quesada's Ninth Tactical Air Command, rather than troops, became Lieut. General George Patton's "right flank": he had put a fighter pilot in each of Patton's lead tanks "so that we would have quick communications with fighter pilots. I wanted...
...Julius Caesar in 49 B.C., Fréjus helped build the fleet Roman galleys that defeated Antony and Cleopatra in the battle of Actium in 31 B.C. It was at Fréjus that Napoleon made his triumphant return from Egypt in 1799, and it was a key beachhead when the Allies landed on France's southern shore in 1944. The golden CÓte d'Azur begins at Fréjus' beach, and this year the dry summer had brought a record in tourists and a good wine crop. But for five days torrential rains...
...course the note turns out to be no joke, and one fine sunny day, during an air-raid drill, an ocean-going tug chugs past the Statue of Liberty, and 20 mailclad bowmen make a beachhead in lower Manhattan. They move inland through deserted streets and occupy a scientific institute-where, as it happens, Dr. Alfred Kokintz, the great physicist, is putting the final touches to the Q-bomb, a football-shaped object that will erase an area of 2,000,000 square miles if it ever explodes. The bowmen capture the bomb and the man who made it, take...