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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Manfred Rommel, Stuttgart mayor and son of "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel: "It's sad for the German people that they must admit it was better to lose in war than win. But we have to admit it. It would have been terrible had Hitler...
Because the Justice Department cannot put Noraid out of business, the Government's primary aim is to discourage contributions from Americans by forcing Flannery to acknowledge that some of the money is used for terrorism in Northern Ireland. Says a federal investigator: "Flannery would be better off standing on a soapbox shouting for money to buy guns and bricks and bombs to blow the Brits out of Northern Ireland. That would be the end of it as far as we are concerned. We would leave him alone." In fact, while donations might slow if the collectors were that candid...
DIED. Major General Ernest N. Harmon, 85, one of World War IIs most decorated commanders; of pneumonia; in White River Junction, Vt. A West Point graduate, Harmon, better known to his troops as "Old Gravel Voice," commanded the "Hell on Wheels" 2nd Armored Division during the Allied invasion of French North Africa in 1942; the division later halted the Germans' westward plunge in the Battle of the Bulge...
Critics have blamed Gallant for not judging more, for not smiling on the good, or frowning on the bad more overtly. In truth, she mostly keeps her feelings protectively compressed behind an almost Conradian irony. Children, servants, old people draw her affection, partly because they are in a better position than the strong or successful to understand the real condition of life: that it is vulnerable to mysterious sudden changes, controlled by powers that the subject does not understand. Imaginative arrangements must be made, all of them temporary. "Gabriel at that time," Gallant writes about a young refugee in France...
...trophies: eleven Greater Cincinnati League titles as well as three state, seven regional and nine city crowns. Says one of the pack of university scouts who follow Moeller's fortunes: "This is one of the finest sports dynasties ever. For longevity and total dominance, it's better than U.C.L.A. basketball...