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Taylor then collected Brigadier General Tony McAuliffe, a flock of colonels and staff officers, a correspondent from Reuters and a few score soldiers and led the attack that opened up a causeway from Utah Beach for the 4th Division. Says Taylor: "Never were so few led by so many." To his stunned surprise, Taylor got the Distinguished Service Cross for his part in the action after a staff officer sneaked his name onto the citation list. The embarrassed Taylor gave the officer a memorable chewing...
...able, aggressive New Orleans lawyer, Frank Ellis, 54, came to Washington with a reputation for getting things done. Back in Louisiana, he had masterminded the financing of the 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. He was a leading mover and shaker in the construction of New Orleans' Moisant International Airport, and, as a fortissimo music lover as well as civic leader, he helped spark a fund-raising drive that saved the New Orleans Opera. He earned his claim to a job in the new Administration by belligerently and successfully managing Kennedy's Louisiana campaign last year, in the teeth...
WORLD'S LARGEST combination of bridge and tunnel (17.6 miles) will be built across Chesapeake Bay with $200 million revenue bond issue. Two tunnels, a bridge and 11.9 miles of causeway will link Cape Charles, Va. with Chesapeake Beach near Norfolk, pave way for a new coastal highway along the Virginia seacoast to provide most direct north-south route between New England and Florida...
...Cheerful communiques kept the people from knowing that the enemy was on top of them. Only by scanning the latest banking news ("The undermentioned branches will be closed until further notice") had some been able to follow the Japanese advance. With much fanfare, the retreating British blew up the causeway linking Singapore Island to the mainland. "That should stop the little bastards," muttered one officer, who neglected to notice, as the Japanese did not, that the water at low tide was only four feet deep...
...demanded eventual closing of Britain's huge military base, though this, he made clear, must follow a merger with the neighboring independent Federation of Malaya, and would take perhaps "five, ten, 15 or 20 years." When the British-owned Straits Times threatened to move across Singapore's causeway to Malaya to fight P.A.P. better, Lee shouted: "Any newspaper that tries to sour up relations between Malaya and Singapore after May 30 will go in for subversion. We will put in any editor, subeditor or reporter who goes along this line, and keep...