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...Willard died. A West Pointer ('16) with a civil engineering degree from M.I.T. ('22), topflight Army Engineer Hoge served under MacArthur as first chief of the Philippine Corps of Engineers (1935), built the Alcan Highway (1942), was a member of the group that planned and operated Omaha Beachhead on Dday. He also commanded the armored division that captured the Remagen Bridge (first Allied bridgehead over the Rhine), went on to command a corp in Korea, finally served as commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe (1953-55) before retiring and joining Interlake's exectutive staff...
...that the Spanish fathered in Latin America. The austere image of the Puritans of 1620 kneeling on the bare beach at Plymouth has obscured in the U.S. mind the more complicated grandeur of the equally devout men who, 100 years before, had kneeled at Mass on their beachhead near the place they came to call Vera Cruz. The notion persists that the Spanish conquest of the New World was a cruel and disgraceful business. Two new books may do something to destroy what Salvador de Madariaga has called "an article of faith" in the Anglo-Saxon world-"that Spain means...
...time by at least two days. Bit by grudging bit, they inched back from the canal highway, from the airfield, from the battered city itself, until at last they had handed over all authority to the Swedes, Danes and Norwegians of the U.N. Expeditionary Force. Then the last thousand "beachhead" troops ended the 48-day occupation and marched aboard the ships that had been waiting for them all the time...
...down (dead so far: 13). But the government believed that Castro was somewhere on the island, and Mexico City news reports indicated that Castro's irregulars might be heading for Yucatan, a mere 130 miles from Cuba. Batista declared modified martial law in Pinar del Rio, the indicated beachhead if Castro planned a small-boat invasion...
...Chicago's Conrad Hilton hotel, downtown headquarters of the Democratic National Convention, long-stemmed models ankled through the lobby last week in brief bathing suits covered with 375 Pepsi-Cola caps. Coolers loaded with Pepsi were staked out on every important floor, but Coca-Cola coolers won a beachhead at candidates' headquarters and the convention hall. Schenley Industries, Inc.. restricted from dispensing its beverages, fell back on institutional messages ("Since 1933, Schenley Industries, Inc. has spent $200 million with U.S. farmers for grains...