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...election year. If the obsolete man must electoral purposes accept the twentieth century, the extreme liberal must similar purposes swallow an unattractively large dose of nineteenth century Horatio Alger. In the national conventions, both parties seem to take decisive and conscious move toward the center, leaving on the one flank disappointed Goldwaterites and on the other disgruntled Stevensonians. It matters very little that both heroes have closed ranks with their parties; the "real" Republicans and the "real" Democrats are still not satisfied and will support Nixon and Kennedy only half-heartedly. One of the major tasks for the Democrats this...
...Octavius--enter and sit separated by the table, testing and feeling out each other's strength while often refusing to let their eyes meet. The wary, equal opposition of powers crushing weakness between them is enhanced by the diagonal placing of Enobarbus and two lesser officers on Antony's flank, and of Agrippa and two corresponding officers on Octavius...
Fragrant Memory. Raborn got his program moving at flank speed. Somehow, in record time, every phase of the mission had to be worked out in theory and tested in practice. Dummy birds of everything from redwood to cement were fired at installations from San Clemente Island to Cape Canaveral. There were test shots from a converted Mariner-class ship, Observation Island. There were tethered shots, shots that were grabbed by hooks, and buoyant birds netted in the water. All helped give basic information...
...proposition had its domestic critics from the beginning. Adlai Stevenson recognized the need for intelligence but asked: "Is it possible that we. the United States . . . could do the very thing we dread: carelessly, accidentally trigger the holocaust?" Columnist Walter Lippmann kept up a running battle from the legal flank: "To avow that we intend to violate Soviet sovereignty is to put everybody on the spot . . . The avowal is an open invitation to the Soviet government to take the case to the United Nations, where our best friends will be grievously embarrassed...
...Right Flank March. A month later, he put Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower piggyback in the cockpit of a P-51 and took him on a go-minute ride along the beachhead ("Eisenhower was very pleased, but we both caught hell from the Joint Chiefs of Staff"). During the great armored-tank drive across Europe, Quesada's Ninth Tactical Air Command, rather than troops, became Lieut. General George Patton's "right flank": he had put a fighter pilot in each of Patton's lead tanks "so that we would have quick communications with fighter pilots. I wanted...