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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Mark Mullin's 4,07.0 mile win over Bobby Mack was the top single of the meet. Observers at the finish line saw Mullin and Mack disappear behind the stands on the backstretch barely a step apart, could wait to see who emerged in front. will ever forget the sight of Mullin out around the far turn with five-yard lead...
...Algerian imbroglio. This belief is compounded partly of a desire to assert, once and for all, that the Army's service in the colonies has not been outside the main-stream of contemporary French history. Just as de Gaulle is anxious to keep his record clean for posterity by finishing what he pledged to finish, so the O.A.S. leadership is concerned lest the French army go down in history as an aggregation of "lost, violent souls." They are out to win the war to prevent this, and their cry might well be, "History will absolve...
Quaker captain Slater is by all odds the star of the Penn Squad, but tonight he will probably finish ten seconds behind the Crimson's Harry Turner and George Mulligan in the 440, his specialty...
This general outline fails to convey the book's real interest, which lies in the misconceptions, contradictions, misinformation and blunders with which Britain and her allies approached this crucial period in Russian history. British policy was based on fundamental misconceptions from start to finish. Most blatant was the assumption that the Bolsheviks would profit from a renewed war effort: the resting period provided by Brest-Litovsk was vital to the consolidation of the Soviet regime and Lenin and Trotsky had no desire to involve themselves with one of the "bourgeois" alliances...
...terms with the world around him, a world swarming with zany people and beyond rational control. And though he introduces many engaging and diverting personalities, his best creation is himself--the craven coward, the hesitant man of the world, the would-be lady killer, who really just wants to finish reading Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic...