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...Attack. Last month the Barcelona streetcar company announced a 40% fare rise from 50 to 70 centimes. Students and workers were furious. As D-day for the fare rise (March i) approached, protest posters appeared on walls, chain letters floated through the mails: "Be a good citizen, show your courage. Starting March i, hoof it to work." Kids chanted in the streets: "If you want your morning jolly, stay away from the trolley...
...deputy chief to Ike Eisenhower's P.W. branch in 1944, Jackson worked his staff around the clock in London's Inver-esk House on the touchiest campaign of the war: rousing the conquered peoples of Europe, by radio and leaflet, to active support for Dday. As D-day grew closer, they warned of bombings to come, urged the French into effective disobedience of German orders. Finally they sent the organized French underground after important specific targets like bridges and railroad switches...
After Peleliu, Smith was transferred to the staff of Lieut. General Simon Buckner's Tenth Army at Pearl Harbor, to help plan D-day on Okinawa, a combined Army-Marine operation (1,213 ships, 183,000 men). In July 1945 he was assigned once more to Quantico. Appointed as Quantico commandant in 1946 was General Clifton B. Gates, a regimental commander' on Guadalcanal who is now commandant of the Corps. Gates and Smith sifted out all that had been learned of the art of amphibious warfare and distilled it into a series of textbooks, leaning heavily on Smith...
...hopped into a helicopter for a hurried look at a new danger point. By week's end, as hope mounted that the main crisis had been met with only two lives lost, many a Winnipegger sent up a waterlogged cheer for Brigadier Ronald Morton, 49, veteran of D-day in Normandy...
Whoever started the notion that because a thing is natural, it's necessarily painless . . . When D-day arrives this May for my next baby, I'll be glad of a little anesthesia after I've come to the end of my rope with Read's "breathing and relaxing...