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...examinations during the ordeal (his dean ordered him advanced anyway). The Moluccans, he said, had treated him reasonably well, and despite low moments, morale among the passengers had remained surprisingly high. The running joke among the group, he said, was that their endless train "ride" must mean that Holland had become a huge country...
Painful Crawl. The idea behind the battle was simple enough: drop 35,000 British and American paratroopers in Holland, behind the German lines in the fall of 1944, and ask them to seize and hold six bridges leading to Germany proper until ground forces could get to them, a distance of 64 miles. Together the forces could then smash into the Ruhr, wipe out what was left of the enemy's war production, and everybody would be home for Christmas...
...Death of Classical Paganism, by John Holland Smith (Scribner's; 280 pages; $12.95). A British novelist and historian, Smith declares himself a "pagan" and expresses his regret that the Christian God ever overwhelmed Jupiter and his court of divinities. Most historians believe that the classical gods were already moribund when Christianity arose; Smith argues that they were alive and well until they were "assassinated" by the new faith. The early Christians' Jupiter-is-dead movement, he concludes, was the worst of "all the crimes committed in Christ's name" because it impoverished Western culture...
...When word was radioed to the crew that Las Palmas Airport had been closed because terrorists had touched off a bomb in a local flower shop, injuring eight people, they landed at Tenerife instead. Veldhuizen took advantage of the delay to refuel his plane for the flight back to Holland. He took on 21,000 gallons...
...tragic victims of Tenerife, there were no ifs. For their surviving families, the ifs were only agony. The reality came home at week's end in brown wooden boxes, flown to Holland and Delaware's Dover Air Force Base in cargo jets. Now it was up to the professional investigators to deal with both the ifs and the realities of aviation's worst disaster...