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...fall of 1940, the first-year classes of Harvard and Radcliffe filed into Cambridge prepared to embark on a voyage to the frontiers of learning...
...INVASION "Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. . ." -- FROM EISENHOWER'S ORDER OF THE DAY UPON THE INVASION OF NORMANDY, JUNE...
...invasion, the one he had planned and argued for and believed in wholeheartedly. He meant every word of the order of the day he addressed to the servicemen he was sending into Hitler's Festung Europa: "Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Forces: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade toward which we have striven these many months...
When Ames was posted to Mexico City in 1981, Nancy did not follow. As in Ankara and New York, Ames was assigned to the CIA's Soviet/East Europe (S.E.) division to hunt potential agents. At that time, with President Reagan soon to embark on a crusade against the "Evil Empire," the fever for recruiting Soviet spies was rising. In the fall of 1980 the FBI and CIA had launched Operation Courtship in the hope of penetrating the big KGB station in Washington. While Ames was in Mexico dining and cultivating KGB officers, the FBI netted two important Washington-based...
Finally, the last thing that you need to do before you embark on your life of fame and fortune as the new Stanley Kauffman is to find a meal ticket. By "meal ticket," I mean the journal, paper, T.V. show etc., etc., that will a) pay you, and b) print your stuff. If you don't have a meal ticket, You're merely an opinionated loudmouth. If you do, though you're a pundit, a light unto the unwashed masses begging for cinematic guidance...