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...Negroes who took part one way or another in the Civil War. Commanding some 300 Union troops, she in 1863 led a highly successful and much-imitated foray into Confederate territory, freeing almost 800 slaves, driving the enemy inland, and inflicting losses estimated in the millions. An official dispatch at the time stated, "She became the only woman in American military history ever to plan and conduct an armed expedition against enemy forces." The distinction still stands...
...going on around them, and couldn't begin to understand it even if they cared. They serve to underline Anouilh's prevailing pessimism about mankind. Kilty has also thrown in a couple of mute secret service men in grey suits and sunglasses, who go about their business with ominous dispatch...
...Parliament is scheduled to review the effects of the suspension, the government is extremely unlikely to call for the restoration of capital punishment. Besides, every execution device in Britain has been dismantled, with the sole exception of the gallows at Wands-worth Prison. It is kept in readiness to dispatch the few offenders still liable to the death sentence-traitors, and those guilty of the arcane crimes of arson in Her Majesty's dockyards and piracy with violence...
Speaking for Clark, Fortas and Stewart, Justice Harlan applied a diluted Times standard. He pointed out that the riot news "required immediate dissemination." There was little reason for A.P. higher-ups to question the dispatch. The reporter was apparently reliable. His report was internally consistent and, added Harlan, "would not have seemed unreasonable" to a person familiar with such prior Walker radio statements as one contending that the people had "talked, listened and been pushed around far too much . . ." (Harlan delicately declined to finish quoting Walker, who had added that the pushing was being done by "the anti-Christ Supreme...
...surprise. Nevertheless, New York Post Theater Critic Richard Watts Jr. found the wit to quip that "it is safe to predict that someone will soon be blaming Lyndon Johnson for the whole ugly Middle Eastern crisis." Sure enough, someone soon was. The very next day, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Columnist Marquis Childs declared that the "real significance" of the war is that the "Johnson brand of consensus diplomacy has disastrously failed"-an interpretation that, had they read it, would have certainly startled the Arabs and Israelis-not to mention the Russians...