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...followers, posing as Swiss tourists, to Hebron, where they squatted in the Park Hotel until the Labor government of Premier Levi Eshkol gave them permission to settle in a nearby military encampment. Once their presence was established, the squatters pushed for permanent quarters. In due course, Qiryat Arba, a fortress-like project of high-rise apartments, shops, synagogues and schools, was built by the government at a cost of $50 million...
Nobody takes Playboy magazine's philosophy of the good life more seriously than Hugh Hefner, the man who started it all on his kitchen table back in 1953. He rules his empire and maintains his image as a protean ladies' man from a fieldstone fortress in Los Angeles. It is equipped with battlements in the backyard, outdoor Jacuzzi baths built into a stone grotto and sprawling lawns where flamingos and pet peacocks roam. Mansion West, as the place is called to distinguish it from Hefner's 54-room Chicago playpen now on the block for $2.5 million...
Corregidor. 1941. General Douglas MacArthur, having evacuated Manila before the onrushing Japanese invaders, fled to the island fortress that guards Manila Bay. Under bombardment there, he radioed appeals to Washington for help. No help could come. It was one of the darkest points of World War II in the Pacific. MacArthur talked of dying at his post...
What the U.S. sees-and seeks-as "containment" of Soviet power, the Kremlin sees and fears as "encirclement" by its enemies. That fear has driven Soviet foreign policy since 1917. The Bolsheviks were then surrounded and even invaded by hostile capitalist countries. The word Kremlin means fortress-an accurate reflection of the mentality there...
...Born and educated in England, Buttrick won notice in the U.S. as pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (1927-54) and at Harvard as Preacher to the University (1954-60). From these pulpits he shocked fundamentalists by asserting that "literal infallibility of Scripture is a fortress impossible to defend" and infuriated others by opposing the U.S.'s entry into World War II and the subsequent arms race with Moscow, "a lockstep toward incineration that we do not know how to stop...