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They met soon after dawn Oct. 20, 1805. A "series of single combats of the most bloody ferocity," the battle reached its peak when ship jammed against ship, exchanging furious broadsides and grapeshot at point-blank range, with boarding parties hanging massed along the bulwark netting. The rigging of the French ships swarmed with grenadiers and sharpshooters-and it was one of these, alongside Nelson's flagship Victory, who, recognizing the great captain dressed in "a blaze of colour," took aim and mortally wounded him with a single shot. Nonetheless, by midafternoon the Franco-Spanish line had ceased...
Just as Secretary Dulles is confident of the ultimate triumph of free nations, so Dwight Eisenhower is sure that the best way to bulwark the world's security is to divert atomic production toward peaceful uses-just as fast as the Russians make it safe to do so. Last week Ike's drive went forward on three fronts...
...Bulwark ... In Oxford, England, after lengthy debate, the Union Society of Oxford University voted 280-203 in favor of the motion: "This House will resist a spread of the American way of life to this country...
...same attempt to limit debate was made in 1953, but it accomplished nothing. Theoretically the U.S. Senate considers its rules virtually sacrosanct. It describes itself as a "continuing body"-with continuing rules. Its purists hold that the filibuster is not so much a deceitful parliamentary device as a bulwark of the high principle of "unlimited debate...
...constitution calling for establishment of a court similar to the U.S. Supreme Court has been unpopular with the nation's Demo-Christian rulers. Reason: the court would obviously scrap many of Italy's 708 "public security" laws, which the government regards as its chief bulwark against the internal Communist threat but which are for the most part Mussolini's handiwork. Many of the laws clearly violate the civil liberties guaranteed by the 1948 constitution...