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...stoic. Despite invincible fear of air travel, she flew with Duff in countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian "lu."† saw a second English generation of her class face death (on Dday, "two Mannerses"), and for a time, in "dung-covered boots," fed swill to pigs on a Sussex farm. Her bits on the horrors of life under British austerity are done with sharp irony. Lady Dufferin's goldfinch was "frozen to death in her bedroom. A remarkable thing to happen...
Caught between the fires was the five-man Orleans Parish (New Orleans) School Board, which fought desegregation for nearly eight years, then gave up to prepare for Monday, Nov. 14-marked on the desk calendar of School Board President Lloyd Rittiner as Dday...
...Pittsburgh, obviously intending his remarks to show that Kennedy was not big enough for the presidency, Eisenhower, in a reminiscent mood, told a G.O.P. audience of the terrible loneliness of decision in the White House, in words that had a beyond-the-battle feeling about the office. On Dday, he related, he had to decide whether to send two paratroop divisions into battle in a sector where a senior adviser predicted 90% casualties. He eventually decided that the paratroops had to be committed to combat, and ''for years thereafter," he said, "I felt that only once...
...Longest Day, by Cornelius Ryan. A poem by Verlaine, and Rommel's wife's new shoes, are typical of the minutiae turned up in this well done, microscopic examination of Dday...
...Longest Day, by Cornelius Ryan. An expert, exciting and microscopic examination of Dday...