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Married. Maurice Herzog, 45, leader of the 1950 conquest of the Himalayas' 26,502-ft. Mount Annapurna, now director of De Gaulle's physical fitness program; and Countess Maríe Pierre de Cossé-Brissac, 39, French noblewoman; he for the first time; she for the second; in Paris...
...Republican cause demands that we brand Communism as the principal disturber of peace in the world today. Indeed, we should brand it as the only significant disturber of the peace. And we must make clear that until its goals of conquest are absolutely renounced and its relations with all nations tempered, Communism and the governments it now controls are enemies of every man on earth who is or wants to be free...
...Goldwater bandwagon came rolling into the convention city. And behind the wheel, breezy and relaxed as a one-arm driver who is supremely confident of conquest in his courtship, sat Barry Goldwater...
Zulu vividly re-creates an episode from the British conquest of Zululand in 1879. Its heroes were some 130 redcoats who made a blood-and-guts stand against 4,000 proud Zulu warriors besieging the mission outpost at Rorke's Drift, Natal. Eleven of the survivors were later awarded Britain's coveted Victoria Cross, the most ever given after a single military action...
...Lenin (as he fully expected it to try to do), would the Bolsheviks now be merely a footnote to history? Not the least of the paradoxes is the fact that Communism, which teaches the inevitability of historical forces and the impotence of the individual in swaying them, owes its conquest of Russia to the energy and confident thrust of Lenin alone...