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...fraud, he says of the activism back then, and involved a great deal of adolescence. This is why, he adds, the leftists in the Class of '69 have abandoned their former positions. For his part, Abrams opposed the strikes, and was the founder of the ad hoc Committee in Keep Harvard Open (which was comprised of five people...
...story on the Normandy battlefield, Painton crisscrossed the 60-mile stretch of landing beaches. At Pointe du Hoc, he explored the 100-ft. cliffs that U.S. Rangers had scaled in the face of enemy fire. "The remains of German bunkers are the only evidence that a war had been fought there," he reports. "Those bunkers were blasted into chunks of concrete that now resemble tilting Celtic dolmens...
...singing as they set off from England, "Glory, glory, what a hell of a way to die..." They will remember exactly the spot where they were pinned down by German machine guns, or where a shell blast sent a truck pinwheeling. They will go up again to Pointe du Hoc and shake their heads again in wonder at the men who climbed that sheer cliff while Germans fired down straight into their faces. The veterans will take photographs. But the more vivid pictures will be those fixed in their minds, the ragged, brutal images etched there on the day when...
Another unit of 225 Rangers under Lieut. Colonel James Rudder was dispatched to Pointe du Hoc, a 100-foot-high promontory four miles west of Omaha and ten miles east of Utah. Their assignment: to knock out six heavily defended German 155-mm guns that could command both beaches. They fired rocket-propelled grappling hooks up to the top of the cliff and then began the fearful climb up ropes and ladders. The Germans splattered the oncoming Rangers with machine-gun fire, grenades, even boulders, and they managed to cut several of the ropes on which the Rangers were inching...
Dreben does not seem to have any compunctions about applying his logical insightfulness to tenure cases. In addition to reviewing the dossiers and choosing ad hoc committee members. Dreben says he participates actively in the ad hoc meetings themselves...