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...essentially unknowing about complex strategic issues make the right military choices? The nation's past yields few lessons. Franklin Roosevelt, an Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War I, fancied himself a strategist of sorts. He loved to ride the bridge of a warship, wearing his black cape. But warfare was simpler then, and Roosevelt's long reign as an active Commander in Chief did educate him. Harry Truman had good instincts about war, and even better men around him. Ike, of course, knew roughly what he was doing...
...conceived as the most elaborate flag-waving event in years, a monthlong Republic Festival to celebrate South Africa's 20th anniversary as an independent republic. From the Cape shoreline to the Transvaal highlands, South Africans launched a series of sporting events and pageants. "All racial groups can be fired anew with determination and genuine patriotism," intoned State President Marais Viljoen...
...inventiveness of the plotting helps too. Decent acting in movies of this sort is, of course, merely an extra added attraction-a sort of dish night for the sobersides. But Christopher Reeve makes his transitions from Clark Kent to Superman something more than a matter of fluffing up his cape; the man has a quiet sense of irony about him. Margot Kidder is a perfect Lois Lane. She makes one believe that inside that ambitious reporter there just may be a lady who reads lyric poetry on her nights off. The pair were the best thing about Superman...
That night, more than 2000 students gathered in the Yard to hear Phillip A. Stone '62--dressed in a toga, black cape, and crowned by a laurel wreath--demand that "our diplomas be in the language which many admire although few are able to read." One protester carried a sign which warned: "No Latin, No Alumni Money...
...honor Billy Martin, who encourages brawls on the field and participates in them when as a leader he should be stopping them, the man who ambles through life with the finesse of a bull looking for the nearest red cape...