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...about three years of research and writing to produce this book. It reads as if it were not written at all but dictated, Napoleon style, at top speed to at least two secretaries at once, and the resulting manuscript corrected with a glass in one hand, a cigar in the other, and no place to hold the blue pencil. Even the title is a piece of mindless sensationalism: Berlin was not a battle, let alone the last...
Then, he took a few puffs on his pungent six-inch cigar, and made some sharp comments about the general performance of the press. He particularly castigated the press in California for "not knowing what was going on in my primary campaign...
...Desert Strike worth such costs? General Paul D. Adams, whose Army-Air Force STRIKE Command is conducting the exercise, is certain that it is. Puffing on a cigar in his air-conditioned trailer at Needles, Calif., Adams, 57, who bears a striking resemblance to the original "Desert Fox," German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, explained: "There are lots of things we try to accomplish in an exercise like this. It's the first time we've been able to get a proper training area for the armored divisions for ten or twelve years now-where they will encounter...
...level, but American Motors has so far sold 8,800 "fewer cars this year than last. Last week AMC announced a 17% drop in earnings for its first fiscal half at a time when the other car makers are setting new profit records. So many Ramblers remain unsold that cigar-chomping President Roy Abernethy, 57, next week will lay off 7,800 workers, probably will not recall them until new-model production begins in August...
Once warmed up, the President put on a display of oratorical gestures that would have made William Jennings Bryan look like a cigar-store Indian. His arms worked like pistons; he pointed up, down and into the audience; he rocked his body back and forth-once leaning so far forward between the microphones that the public-address system lost his voice. He spoke of patriotism, looked around for Old Glory, couldn't locate it, and went on in pantomime, holding high and waving an imaginary flag standard. Repeatedly, he used a sort of breast-stroke-like gesture that...