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...piece of Americana in The Yankee Exodus, while John Bakeless reproduced the look of the country as its first explorers saw it in The Eyes of Discovery. Civil War fans got their richest informal serving in years in Henry Steele Commager's The Blue and the Gray, a feast of documentary evidence from actual participants on both sides, military and civilian...
That night, at a big dinner for Erle at Fort Benning, General Marshall pointed another moral. He said that this nation had to have an enduring system of national defense instead of a "feast & famine" military program. While he was Secretary of State in 1947, Marshall recalled, the country had only one and a third infantry divisions, yet people were urging him to "pour it on the Soviets and give them hell." What the country needed, he said, was a system "that will not collapse at every change of the wind and temperature, a system that will keep us prepared...
...Thanksgiving Day, U.S. troops in the front lines ate turkey with trimmings, some of it delivered by airdrop. Next day, at 8 a.m., the big push got rolling. At first, enemy resistance was so negligible that some soldiers who had had no chance for a feast the day before because they were on the move sat down and gorged themselves on the fine holiday meal sent up by the quartermasters...
...Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was strongly tempted one night to stay away from divine office in chapel the next morning. He knew that the day would be Aug. 14, the vigil of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and that the service would contain the words from the Martyrology of Usuard†: "As yet the Church has given no decision upon the bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, exercising a prudent reserve as to trivial, or apocryphal legends." St. Anthony, who steadfastly believed that Mary's body had indeed been taken into Heaven after...
Even if farmers think they can solve their labor problem by importing migrant workers from Mexico (a process tangled in red tape) and by mechanization, many of them may still be reluctant to expand cotton acreage. Before they plow up their pastures and go back to the feast & famine dangers of cotton, farmers will want assurance that it will pay in the long run, that quotas won't be clamped on again next year. Warned the Atlanta Constitution: "[Farmers] would do well to think . . . carefully before giving up in favor of the lure of quick cotton profits...