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...effective end through the leadership of Charles Francis Adams '56, who thought the issue of a Confederate memorial "undeserving of serious consideration," and wrote, "I do protest against any confusion between those who died in defense of their country and those who died in an effort to dissolve it.' Colonel Higginson wrote, "When there has been a great row such as we saw, isn't it the best thing after it to keep still...
...father was a combat-hardened Army lieutenant colonel whose soldiers called him "Stoneface," who spoke three languages and served as an intelligence officer, but was passed over for full colonel twice because he didn't hide his contempt for incompetent superiors. His mother was the gentle buddy who sometimes let her kids stay home from school just to be with mom, but would hide them in the closet at lunchtime when Bob came home so he wouldn't get angry. Newt never openly challenged his father's strict rules. He just ignored them...
Speaking by telephone from a bullet-pocked control tower, Air Force Colonel Neal Patton, who has been in charge of installing runway lights and precision navigation equipment and otherwise getting the field ready, expresses confidence that it can handle the planned traffic. But he adds, with a laugh, "We're going to go to church to pray for better weather." Snow and low ceilings last week caused several flights either to be held on the ground at the Ramstein air base in Germany or to circle Tuzla fruitlessly and go back, unable to land. The miserable conditions do have their...
...Hungary, from which they will advance 50-odd miles across Croatia into Bosnia and Herzegovina. Others will still be at bases in Germany, waiting their turn to board the trains; some may not leave until February. Army commanders strongly deny, however, that the buildup is slipping behind schedule. Says Colonel Mike Sullivan, chief spokesman for the U.S. Army, Europe: "Slow and gradual is exactly where we want to be. This is a very deliberate, precise process in vicious weather on a very unfavorable terrain, and we're very aware of that. We're not going to expose soldiers and their...
...girls; the hysterically misplaced passion of her sister Marianne (Kate Winslet)--the "Sensibility" of the title--nearly dying when that cad John Willoughby (Greg Wise) leaves her for a woman better endowed financially; the romantic occlusion that prevents Marianne from seeing what everyone else can see, that the good Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman), despite a certain stiffness in his emotional joints, is her savior...