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...plague on this naive oh-ing and ah-ing about the democratic marvel of holding a national election in the midst of a war. At its best it is as suspicious as boasting about the virtue of one's wife. At its worst it implies that the Administration magnanimously granted a privilege when it permitted citizens to go to the polls...
Oversight. On paper it was a fine complex plan. There were only two things against it: one was that Old Stagers Halsey, Mitscher and Kinkaid were comb ing the seas with planes and submarines looking for the attack; another was the overwhelming power of the U.S. force...
Other foreign perils were short, knee-length skirts, stockingless legs, and "wonderful shoes with the full bare heels show ing." Said one of Sobolev's characters, a Red Army man, drawing on his experience: "Probably not enough material to finish the shoes." Said his witty comrade: "No, the Rumanians have a tradition of showing their heels in war." "The women," Sobolev conceded, "are handsome in a standardized way, with carefully made-up faces smoothly pale in spite of the burning sun, with hairdos which are a little too artful and with striking dark red pouting lips - the fashion seems...
...brief moment during Spain's Civil War. One fall day in 1936 a group of German International Brigaders drove a band of Moors through the village of Palacete near Madrid. In the village was a unit of Yugoslavs, nearly dead from exhaustion. For days they had been hold ing a gorge in rain, mud, under enemy fire. But when they were ordered to retire for rest, one protested bitterly. That one was Josip Broz. Soon afterward, he was among a hand-picked group of Communists withdrawn by the Red Army's Military Intelligence to join some anti-Franco...
...State, under the direction of Salton-stall, who shows great interest in the work of the committee, has already drawn up enough plans to create employment for thousands, and several of the leading cities of Massachusetts have followed suit with their own ideas for establishing public works without wait- ing for federal grants...