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...July of 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt decided that war was inevitable, and he asked his Secretaries of War and Navy, Henry Stimson and Frank Knox, for a strategic plan to defeat potential enemies. They sent the assignment to Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall, who called in Brigadier General Leonard Gerow, chief of war plans. Gerow turned to the best-qualified, brightest man he could find, a 44-year-old infantry major named Albert Wedemeyer...
Today General Dozier is stationed at the U.S. Army base in Fort Knox, Ky. Marcello Campione, who clashed with the head of SISMI, has been dispatched to the Italian embassy in far-off Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. Franchino Restelli has been transferred from his Milan prison to a more hospitable jail in Parma. Dominic Lombino is back in New York, reportedly waiting for the Justice Department to approve the residency papers requested by the CIA. In Italy, trouble is brewing within SISMI about the sum of money, which turned out to be $500,000 that was promised to Lombino...
...Gregory 's Girl, Bill Forsyth is a master of the throwaway turnabout. Here, with a tenser situation and a somewhat richer mix of characters, he makes about the kind of advance one would expect from him, modest and self-effacing. Maclntyre (Peter Riegert), the acquisitions man from Knox Oil and Gas, may think of himself as "a telex man," all hard figures and bottom lines, but once in the field he is entirely capable of going all soppy about a wounded rabbit. His boss, Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster, expertly doing his clean-old-man routine), is anything...
...suburb, tells students that the city is close enough for easy access, but also lets their parents know that it is far enough away for safety. He assures one boy: "You can walk to the lake with your girlfriend at 11 o'clock at night." Karen Crowell of Knox College reminds prospects that Galesburg, Ill., is the birthplace of Poet Carl Sandburg and site of the fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate. She adds, "There are a lot of large Victorian homes and brick streets." Who can resist...
...Beloit, Ripon and Lawrence University in Wisconsin; Grinnell, Coe and Cornell in Iowa; Carleton, St. Olaf and Macalester in Minnesota; Lake Forest, Knox and Monmouth in Illinois; and Colorado College in Colorado...