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...film shows, the U.S. had cracked Japan's codes and was able to decipher secret communiques. But the "bomb plot" message of Sept. 24 was not ignored by top military brass. In fact, Colonel Rufus C. Bratton treated the transcript, which asked for detailed reconnaissance of ships in Pearl Harbor, with great seriousness. For the record, Dan Ackroyd doesn't play Bratton in the movie but a Bratton-like figure named Thurman. This is presumably because, were he playing Bratton, he would never have told his superiors that he felt Pearl was in gravest peril. Bratton did think that...
...turn of the century. The Electric Launch Co. (Elco) was founded in 1892, and built a clientele both fancy and democratic. Elegant battery-powered Elco boats, built in Bayonne City, New Jersey, were owned by Astors, Vanderbilts, and Czar Nicholas II. They were magnificent things, gleaming with mahogany and brass. But the prices were not plutocratic. In 1902, you could get a 16-foot Elco...
...Chuck Houghton who took me out the other day. A couple of years ago, I went through his factory and drooled a bit over the sleek Edwardian numbers, which have fiberglass hulls but are fitted out with the varnish and brass of the loveliest wooden boats. The boat we had on the river the other day was Elco's cheapest picnic model (well, cheap is relative, it costs $30,000 - think of it as a stripped-down SUV), but I drooled over that one as well - its elegance of design and motion through the water. More and more American lakes...
...hundred years ago, Americans spent their Sunday afternoons tapping their feet to the boom and oompah of a big brass band. In the late 19th century there were 10,000 around the country. For the most part, The Music Man era is bygone--except at Centre College in Danville, Ky., where nearly two dozen bands and 50,000 enthusiasts from around the U.S. and beyond are expected to converge June 15-17 for the 12th annual Great American Brass Band Festival. Margaret and Fonis Payne have traveled 130 miles from Columbus, Ind., every year since 1991. "We forsake everything else...
...position, both because of diplomatic pressure because of pressure from his coalition allies in the Labor Party. He's hoping Peres will find some sort of diplomatic formulation that will let them get around the call for a settlement freeze. Otherwise, he looks as if he's prepared to brass it out. Israel has faced the same criticism over settlements from both the Clinton administration and the previous Bush administration. But the difference is that those Israeli governments weren't faced with such severe violence...