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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Genius & Understanding. As an infantry officer, Lieut. Marshall got a fast start. Outdistancing even his West Point rivals, he made his first big mark in the Philippines (1913-16). His ability to plan and execute maneuvers struck Commanding General J. Franklin Bell as something barely short of miraculous. "Keep your eyes on George Marshall," Bell told his staff. "He is the greatest military genius of America since Stonewall Jackson...
...going all-out in the Pacific-a turn of events that galled the spectacular MacArthur, who was Chief of Staff when Marshall was a lieutenant colonel. When F.D.R. succumbed to the prolonged arguments of Winston Churchill, who insisted on attacking the "soft underbelly of Europe," it was Marshall who got him to change his mind in favor of an assault across the English Channel. Marshall's fondest hope was that he could break out of the deskbound frustration of the staff planner to command the Normandy invasion, but Franklin Roosevelt turned him down: "I wouldn't sleep...
...State Department told it, Missouri-born Russell A. Langelle, 37, security officer in charge of the Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, rode city bus No. 107 to work as usual one chilly morning last week, got off about 9 o'clock at the corner of Chaikovskovo Street and Vorovskovo Street, a block from his office. Suddenly, in the very best Eric Ambler fashion, five civilianclad men closed in around him, efficiently pinned his arms, covered his mouth, hauled him into a nearby alley where waited a Zim, the Buick-copied car used by junior Red officials...
...police later reconstructed it, one man got out of the car, cut the padlock on the store's outer wicket gate, then picked the lock on the inner door. That done, three more of the gang got out and went into the store with him, while a fifth accomplice put a new padlock on the gate to allay the suspicions of any passing policemen. Inside, the four men forced a safe and swept up a peck of rings, bracelets, watches and necklaces, worth over $110,000. But the night had just begun: in the safe the crooks also found...
Ever since Nikita Khrushchev got back from his U.S. visit, Moscow's press and radio have been careful to emphasize that their leader was in no way overawed by what he saw in the showcase of Western capitalism. "I did not find a better land than our Russia," said Nikita himself...