Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sets of operations orders, have plans for every predictable contingency save one: evacuation of U.S. troops. The omission is not an oversight or a gamble. U.S., British and French forces are set to hold the city against all Communist pressures save an all-out attack, which, the Russians well know, would start World War III. In the cold logistics of a military exercise, this is the Berlin blockade problem...
...landlocked island of Berlin could, under Red siege, be reached reliably only by air, as during the historic "Operation Vittles" airlift of 1948-49. And this time, thanks to lessons learned in the first Berlin blockade, the U.S. has a vastly expanded capacity and know-how in the airlifting business...
...Virginia's Jennings Randolph. "Eve escaped," said White, warming to the topic. "Ladies have a great advantage with respect to coronary thrombosis. They do not get it until 50-odd. Men get it in the 30s." "I shall not pursue the point," pursued Randolph. "I did desire to know the malady from which she suffered." "Well," said Dr. White, "she may have had cancer. Or some mental disorder...
...Frustrated? Zsa Zsa has ideas about the book: "I know practically everyone in the whole world," she says in her rich Hungarian accent, which is as hard to render in print as Eliza Doolittle's cockney. "I want to make it clear that I'm not just the dumb blonde who wisecracks...
...hurt her feelings, Manie wearily went to La Guardia, boarded a plane and flew to Detroit. A little more than a year ago, goes another story, Comedian Danny Thomas went to him for help with a project to benefit leukemia victims; Manie plunged into the project without letting anyone know that he was dying of the disease himself. This week's TV show, which raised more than $200,000 for leukemia research and other work by the Emanuel Sacks medical foundation, was predictably sentimental, sincere and enthusiastic. Said Singer Tony Martin of Manie: "He's beginning to sound...