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...allied Caribbean forces were coordinating their assault on Grenada, TIME was engineering a landing of its own. After a five-hour voyage in an open boat, Caribbean Correspondent Bernard Diederich headed ashore on D-day to find the capital city of St. George's still in the hands of Grenada's People's Revolutionary Army. The Marines would not take charge of the town for another two days. Diederich's account of the invasion...
Procter & Gamble does everything in a big way. The company is the $12 billion enterprise behind such household names as Charmin, Folger's, Crest and Crisco. When P&G decides to add a new product to this list, competitors view the marketing assault as a D-day invasion, and with good reason. Last week P&G launched Citrus Hill, its entry into the $3 billion market for chilled and frozen orange juice. "There's a year of sunshine in every sip," goes the slogan for the ads that blossomed on TV and in newspapers. The commercials portray...
...book is divided into two parts, the first written by Province, the second compiled by him. In the first half, the author discusses the more famous incidents in Patton's career, reconstructing, for example, the speech Patton gave on the eve of D-Day, and giving the background to "The Slapping Incidents." One regrets the absence of footnotes or dates, which turns the fascinating quotes given in the book into the very questions the book is supposed to resolve. The lack of scholarly notation is especially felt in the chapter called "The Philosophy," which consists entirely of quotes culled from...
...D-day finally arrived last week for the Washington Public Power Supply System. D for default. D for debacle. With its coffers almost empty, WPPSS or Whoops, as everyone now calls the agency, formally declared that it could not repay $2.25 billion in bonds used to finance partial construction of two now abandoned nuclear power plants in Washington State. It is by far the largest municipal bond default in U.S. history, and the damage is incalculable. The fiasco has robbed thousands of investors of their savings, shaken confidence in the municipal bond market, angered and humiliated the people...
...Berlin. His study of geopolitics there convinced him that the key to power on the Continent was control of Eastern Europe. The only answer to Hitler, therefore, lay in building a superior war machine, then getting it across the ocean and into Germany as soon as possible. Wedemeyer wanted D-day to occur by early summer 1943, a year before the invasion of France actually took place...