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Slessor and his colleagues sat in seclusion for several weeks, and without bene fit of advisers, produced the first blue print of what is now called the New Look strategy. Churchill was delighted: Slessor was sent to Washington to sell the new idea to the Americans. He found that U.S. airmen had already reached the same conclusion. But the Pentagon's soldiers and sailors were still too firmly wedded to the theory of "balanced forces." They gruffly turned Slessor down. Only when air-minded Admiral Arthur Radford became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff did the U.S. adopt...
Possibly the greatest difficulty the police have had to overcome is a lack of F.B.I. cooperation. Although this has been emphatically denied on several occasions, complaints have leaked out of headquarters that Federal agents have bene completely informed on police discoveries, but have kept their own information to themselves...
...there came so fair and sweet a smell of flowers or trees from the land, that it was the sweetest thing in the world." Almost a century later, Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists, aboard ship off the southeast coast, inhaled "so strong a smel, as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding in all kinde of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant...
Died. Dr. David Philipson, 86, "Dean of the American Reform Rabbinate"; in Boston. Longtime (1888-1938) rabbi of Cincinnati's Bene Israel Congregation, Dr. Philipson helped draw up the famed "Pittsburgh Platform" (1885), which set forth the principles of Reform Judaism, in 1907 wrote The Reform Movement in Judaism, still a standard work on the subject...
...cheers. Pierino took seven neat brisk bows. Then he forgot his dignity and gamboled happily up & down the stage. Backstage a reporter asked him: "What do you feel when conducting Beethoven's Fifth Symphony"?" Pierino's prompt answer was at once profound and naive: "Mi sento bene" (I feel fine...