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...days before the vote, the White House had mounted a fierce lobbying blitz which included telephone calls from Bush and other top administration officials to wavering senators and personal visits from Vice President Dan Quayle...
Leka, the son of Albania's first and last native-born monarch, King Zog, told the South African newspaper Business Day last week that he plans to launch a blitz by balloon, attaching leaflets advocating revolution to helium bags and floating them over his homeland. With the rest of Eastern Europe changing so swiftly, he said, the time is ripe for a softening of the last Stalinist holdout on the Continent...
Edelman got a taste of his own tactics last September, when Manhattan lawyer Martin Ackerman launched a proxy war for Datapoint. Edelman responded by entrenching himself more deeply. In a two-day blitz of stock buying, Edelman boosted his stake from 10% to 40%, largely by purchasing stock with cash from Intelogic Trace. Edelman won, but pride had its price: Datapoint shares have fallen an additional 25% in value...
...France, he now thought that nightly bombing would make the English rise in revolt against Churchill's pursuit of the war. (It was a miscalculation that the Allies were to repeat in their subsequent bombing of German cities.) Londoners instead took pride in their ability to endure the blitz, to spend long hours in the subway bomb shelters, to put out the fires and go on with their lives. "I saw many flags flying from staffs," Edward R. Murrow reported to America one night over CBS radio. "No one told these people to put out the flag. They simply feel...
...being assembled in France. On one September night 84 barges were hit. Hitler was finally convinced. On Sept. 17 he formally decided "to postpone Sea Lion indefinitely." But the Battle of Britain went on. Between July and November, the Germans lost 1,733 aircraft, the British 915. Though the blitz continued until the following spring, costing about 30,000 lives in London alone, the essential result was that for the first time, Hitler's military power had been beaten back...