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Oh well, even Churchill could never learn the proper use of jargon. When he took over in 1940, he had every opportunity to tell the British people that "dispatches from the zone of hostilities indicate that the military situation on the Continent has deteriorated to an alarming extent." He muffed...
As mountains go, Antarctica's Vinson Massif* is not particularly awe-inspiring in its height. A humpbacked hunk of granite that rises to 16,860 ft., Vinson is the highest known peak on the continent, but it is still lower than ten mountains in North America. For an accomplished...
International Order. Far more was ending than NATO's attachment to a lovely city or France's military cooperation with the rest of the West. Seventeen years after its founding as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, NATO itself was undergoing a profound change. It was a reflection of...
Midnight Birds. With all her success, Julie is now facing up to the inevitable cliché that infects married couples who get deeply involved in their separate professions: Whither goest who? The answer is that Walton goeth to London, Julie to Hollywood. The result is that they are separated by...
¶ Three major steel companies-Dorman Long, South Durham Steel and Iron, and Stewarts and Lloyds-agreed to fuse into a group that will rival the new steel titans on the Continent, be capable of producing a quarter of Britain's steel needs. The merger was prompted by the...