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...unit. This unit was soon incorporated in a cavalry regiment, commanded by ex-Cavalry Sergeant Semyon Timoshenko, which became part of a Red cavalry army led by Semyon Budenny, an ex-Cossack. The war unfolded on a 3,000-mile perimeter around central Russia. The Red cavalrymen fought as irregular shock troops, now galloping 400 miles to strike Poland's Pilsudski, now driving south at the White forces under General Denikin, finally pinning White General Piotr Wrangel in the Prekop isthmus and bringing the war to a close. Georgy Zhukov, the barrel-chested, hard-riding kid from Kaluga Province...
...actions. Stalin's first act of war was to reinstate the army commissars, but commissars were unable to prevent hundreds of Red army commanders, thinking they preferred Nazi to Communist tyranny, from surrendering their arms and their men. Quite a few commissars went over, too. Others, like Old Irregular Budenny, defeated in the Ukraine, beat it back to Moscow. Within four months the Wehrmacht was at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad, and 4,000,000 Red army men were prisoners. Stalin was paying for his policy of purge-and-be-damned...
...Gusils tries his hand at a variety of materials: bronze, steel, iron, marble and terra cotta; as well as a number of styles. No. 1 "Torso" is a realistic treatment of the traditional nude. Instead of idealizing the body Gusils prefers to make it very fleshy and animal like. Irregular proportions and a relaxed posture help accomplish this. The same subject is teated in increasingly more abstract styles in three other works. No. 6, a marble nude, approaches a watered down cubism. As in the work of the contemporary Italian sculptor Martini the limbs are almost conical in shape...
...established U.S. airlines, North American Airlines is neither swan nor goose but an unloved and awkward swoose. Technically a nonscheduled operator under CAB rules calling for "irregular" and "infrequent" flights, it has nevertheless grown into a $9,000,000 outfit operating one of the biggest transcontinental air-coach services. Last week, with North American's 1954 sales topping $11 million, the CAB decided to clip the big hybrid's wings. A CAB examiner recommended that North American be grounded for operating a scheduled airline in violation of CAB regulations...
Perhaps the most striking aspect of The Vagabond is the intentional shabbiness of its symbols: for love, Colette uses the dull-witted, cloddish Maxime; and for work and art, the rushing, irregular life of a cafe dancer. Renee faces no final decision, because in Colette's world there is none. Her characters drift on the sea of their instincts, and each decisive action shifts only a little the burden of their unfulfilled lives. In the end, Renee writes to Maxime: "Seek far from me that youth, that fresh, unspoilt beauty, that faith in the future and yourself, in a word...