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Shortly after Pearl Harbor, Ford gave up a budding law practice in Grand Rapids and joined the Navy as an ensign. His first assignment ? whipping raw recruits into physical shape at the University of North Carolina ? was not Ford's idea of fighting a war. He kept requesting sea duty, and in a year he got his wish. He was assigned to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Monterey in the South Pacific. Although he was under enemy fire in several major battles, his closest brush with death came during a typhoon that nearly washed him overboard; he was saved...
...wives of servicemen, whatever their personal fears, could at last believe that the ordeal's end was beginning. Somehow the event seems even more distant than 30 years. There have been other wars, changing alliances, crises. None has stimulated the exultant unity of which D-day was the ensign. Hope, the real victor at Normandy and later World War II battlefields, went on to suffer a succession of blows that only now may be relenting...
...chaotic entanglements are as predictable as the first few tricky moves of a cat's cradle. The rivals, Bob Acres and Sir Lucius O'Trigger, vie for the hand of lovely Lydia Languish, who remains cloistered under the guardianship of her old-maid aunt, Mrs. Malaprop. Disguised as Ensign Beverly, Captain Absolute has already secretly won Lydia's favor, but when his father, Anthony Absolute arranges his marriage to Lydia using his real title, Lydia rebuffs...
...central consulting agency set up for flag designers of fledgling nations. In this way, they argue, the world might be spared embarrassing errors, as when Indonesia in 1945 unfurled a new flag of red and white bars that turned out to be both an exact replica of the ensign that Monaco has flown since the 13th century and the Polish flag upside down. As a model of what a flag ought to be, Smith points to that of Guyana: a boldly simple design with a red triangle and a gold arrowhead on a green field. It just happens that...
...TIME correspondent in Canada for 14 years, Ed Ogle had seen it all before. He watched as the nation's Red Ensign, with its British Union Jack, was replaced by the red and white maple leaf flag; he heard the familiar strains of God Save the Queen fade out when O Canada became the national anthem. Now based in Australia, Ogle is again witness to a growing spirit of nationalism in another Commonwealth nation. The new mood Down Under has been fostered largely by Gough Whitlam, Australia's first Labor Party Prime Minister in 23 years...