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...charted the daring Panzer thrust through the Ardennes that split the Allied armies and defeated France, and was assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March 1943. Hitler, disliking his outspoken manners as much as he depended on his ability, finally fired him in 1944, first acknowledging: "Manstein is perhaps the best brain that...
...Atomic Energy Act of 1946 blocks the gateway to commercial atomic power in the U.S. by imposing a tight Government monopoly on fissionable materials and nuclear reactors. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission announced that it would soon ask Congress to loosen the Government's grip. AEC wants to let private companies: 1) buy, lease or borrow fissionable materials from AEC; 2) design, build and operate nuclear reactors...
Command Decisions. From his 23rd-floor, Gateway Center headquarters in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, Price runs his side of the race with all the quiet, unspectacular efficiency of one of his electric motors. No desk-pounder, when he wants something done, he offers it as a polite suggestion. But if it isn't done, Price is apt to remind a deputy: "When I make a suggestion. I don't mean it to be ignored." His aides have learned that he has "a whim of iron." He always uses the direct approach, either phones a man or sees...
Meanwhile Dean Gauss created an 18th club to absorb the 10 percent that weren't making the grade at the time. Gateway turned out to be not such a bad club after all, and until the first war class of 1942 almost 100 percent of the college were clubmen...
With war came more important problems. When it was ever there were only 17 clubs again--a temporary housing project had absorbed Gateway--and no 100 percent...