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Even when T.M.U. teaches a "dead and completely useless language," as it does in Roman Studies 25, it does so in a way that will assist the modern student. Thus, the matriculator at T.M.U. learns how to say travellers checks in Latin and ask, "Ubi est Americanus Expressus...
Americans, traditionally enthralled with the shiny and new, have had a monumental change of heart. They have rediscovered the virtues of city centers, many of which, 20 years ago, were left for dead. The result: scores of neighborhoods, hundreds of grand landmarks and thousands of more modest old buildings are being brought joyously back to life. See DESIGN...
...about 1:30 a.m., German torpedo boats slipped into Lyme Bay and launched their weapons against the convoy. The toll: 749 Americans dead, four times the number that perished on Utah Beach. Most were raw recruits who had never seen the enemy. For the sake of wartime secrecy, news of the tragedy was withheld. The dead were never honored with an official monument...
...Small, a local innkeeper. Small learned of the disaster in the early 1970s, after finding American coins and ammunition washed up on the beach, and he began lobbying the U.S. and British governments for a memorial. This week a simple but official plaque will be dedicated to the dead of Exercise Tiger. "I am not a religious man," says Small, "but I felt something driving me on to do this...
...lurched off the shoulder, flipped over and plunged into a muddy, 9-ft.-deep corner of Lake Xico, a sewage-fouled lagoon. Rescue workers freed nine survivors (one later died) and recovered 39 bodies within a few hours. About 20 passengers escaped, but another 20 or so were presumed dead inside...