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...years since its cadets helped ring the curtain up on the Civil War by firing on the Union steamship Star of the West on her way to relieve Fort Sumter, the Military College of South Carolina (the Citadel) has had much to remember. It has turned out generals by the dozen (among them: Lieut. General James T. Moore, Major General Harry K. Pickett, Major General James B. Allison). Major Thomas D. Howie ("See you in St. Lô") went to the Citadel, and so did Korean Ace Captain Dolphin Overton. At the Citadel, a plebe is still a Doowillie, Dumbrod...
...pessimism was misplaced. Ever since the days of another Balkan Queen, Marie of Rumania, storming the sentimental citadel of U.S. republicanism has become a required skill for European monarchs. Americans, denying themselves the luxury of a monarch of their own, usually capitulate to visiting crowned heads without even a faint show of resistance. In addition, 36-year-old Frederika of Greece and her handsome husband, King Paul, have already captured an impressive array of U.S. hostages in their homeland...
Sensing that his number was up, and knowing that no Soviet police boss has ever outlived his job, Beria may have maneuvered himself, may have tried to build himself a citadel in Georgia, or even to have effected arrests among top party members. No outsider can yet judge how extensive was his control in his ministry, except that it was not sufficient to protect him. That a detachment of tanks and soldiers probably backed up the arresting officers does not necessarily indicate army interest; his own elite secret police formations have that much armor. Beria at the key moment could...
...whole unwhole world of 1953-the Communist world, the Socialist world, the liberal world, the reactionary world-agrees on this: the U.S. is the citadel of conservatism in a tumult of innovation. Yet the label "conservative" is about the last tag that the typical American would think of applying to himself. How explain this contradiction...
...While Perón's police looked the other way, Argentina's Jockey Club, world-famous citadel of wealth and culture...