Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Live Peace." In his brief airport statement, Ike delivered his theme message of "peace and friendship in freedom," noted that in the U.S. more than 10 million Italian-descended citizens claim heritage "from the Italian civilization." Then he got into Gronchi's official Fiat, drove the long way into Rome along the Old Appian Way-the historic route. Crowd turnout in the heavy rain: thin. The motorcade rolled through the Gate of San Sebastiano, past the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum, into the Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only...
When the Little Joe reached 150,000ft., the escape rocket fired, pulling capsule free from the main rocket subjecting Sam to a brief jolt of 17-19g. The capsule coasted up to 55 miles altitude, then arched down. A parachute lowered it safely into the sea, 200 miles away from Wallops Island...
POPES THROUGH THE AGES, by Joseph Brasher, S.J. (530 pp.; Van Nostrand; $14.95), brings together in a single volume pictures of 259 popes and accompanies each one with a brief biography. The effect is that of a permanent time of troubles in which the church has again and again found the men and the means to defend the faith...
...Mckay; $15), suggests that arguments about the Civil War may never cease but that a lot of them are going to be settled by this book. Lieut. Colonel Boatner, onetime instructor of military history at West Point, has arranged 4,000 items in alphabetical order, among them 2,000 brief biographies of notable Civil War figures and scores of succinct action accounts from Gettysburg to mere skirmishes...