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Ford's next act came in September 1926, when the company announced the five-day workweek. As he noted in his company's Ford News in October, "Just as the eight-hour day opened our way to prosperity in America, so the five-day workweek will open our way to...
There were three reasons that Armstrong--a naval aviator in the Korean War who had flown 78 combat missions--became the first to step on the moon. He had returned to civilian life, and the Nixon Administration, mired in the Vietnam War, did not want a commissioned officer "militarizing" space...
That is true. It is also true that Iraq is not the only nation that either has such deadly weapons or would like to get them. North Korea, Iran, possibly Libya and Syria would all love to have the power that Saddam coveted. The unanswered question of the Iraq story...
Urban combat, chemical weapons, civilian casualties, guerrilla warfare, humanitarian crises in the south, instability in the north--whatever the unknowns that lurked ahead, the war machine was undeterred, as evidenced by the various units rolling across the desert, preparing to deliver the ultimate blow to the Iraqi regime. While each...
For FOOFs (Friends of Old Films) like Yours Truly, the 75th anniversary class portrait of dozens of Oscar-winning actors was pleasant, poignant, sometimes prurient. Since the excuse for these reunions is to see how the waxworks look decades after their eminence (Kirk Douglas: chiseled; Jennifer Jones: scary; Ernest Borgnine...