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...particularly like the battlefields in the fall," says Steele, "when the late afternoon light behind Seminary Ridge is smoky, and, standing near the clump of trees which mark the high-water point of the Confederacy, any fool can see Pickett's Division rolling forward. I know of no more moving spot in America than this...
...Suddenly it belched to a crawl-out of the race with a broken supercharger. Heir to a $300 million cattle-and-oil fortune, Bill Waggoner had suddenly run out of the one element of hydroplane racing that is not for sale: luck. "A man has to be a goddamn fool to get mixed up in this business," he muttered sadly...
...Fool's Mate. Kennan's book begins by evoking the grimness of the Russian scene seen at its capital, Petrograd, where at every hand "one feels the proximity of the great wilderness of the Russian north-silent, somber, infinitely patient." Lenin and Trotsky were emerging as the main figures on that somber scene. These agile clever, ruthless and dedicated men-Stalin was still a poisonous penumbra on the horizon of history-were theoretically bent on directing Russia as an ally of the U.S. and the Anglo-French alliance against imperial Germany and Austria. The problem...
...Bolsheviks won this game of chess by a fool's mate. The fools, of one sort or another, were the gullible men of the Western embassies. In the evening of Nov. 7, 1917, the Czar's Winter Palace was "stormed"-by the back door. Kennan sardonically notes, for, amid the confusion and vacillation of the defenders, someone had inadvertently left the back door open. At the time, British Ambassador Sir George Buchanan was gloomily watching artillery from the River Neva (blanks from the Russian cruiser Aurora, usually credited with a main role in the palace's capture...
...huts 5,000 ft. high in the jungle. Kohima was inconsiderable in the long, silent history of its mountains, except that it commanded the Imphal Road and the Ledo Railway, invasion highways. There the 4th Battalion of the Royal West Kents, Colonel John Laverty commanding, took position on April Fool's Day, 1944. They had four days to dig in. There were 500 of them, and for the next 16 days they held off the 31st Japanese Division, totaling some...