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...Limitless Fury." A soldier's son, De Gaulle grew up in Paris with an all-consuming love of country. "France," he decided in early youth, "cannot be France without greatness." As an army colonel in the 1930s, he was keenly aware of his country's disavowal of that destiny. Petty partisan squabbling and interminable changes of government kept France's defenses in a shambles. While Hitler armed to the teeth, the French staked all on their grande illusion, the Maginot Line. Risking his career, De Gaulle badgered his superiors to create a mechanized army capable of swift...
...Gaulle's reaction was "limitless fury." He vowed: "If I live, I will fight, wherever I must, as long as I must, until the enemy is defeated and the national stain washed clean." De Gaulle tried to persuade the Vichy government to carry on the war from French North Africa, but no one of any eminence followed him into exile. "At this moment, the worst in her history," De Gaulle realized, "it was for me to assume the burden of France...
...industry keeps the $16 billion electronics industry going, adds life to jet engines and makes the vitamins in cod liver oil easy to take. Sales of the machinery used to produce vacuums for industrial uses are growing 10% to 15% a year; awareness of the vacuum's almost limitless potential is growing even faster. Last week in Toronto this potential was probed at a meeting of physicists who specialize in working with vacuums. Though their esoteric experiments in the labs are far in advance of industry's needs, they will almost certainly produce new uses. Said Dr. Robert...
Barking Bagel. The show she dominates has a big New York sound, full of brass and sentiment, something that could have been written by Horatio Algerstein for the Ladies Home Joinal. A poor Jewish girl with limitless fight and no visible assets claws, clowns and sings her way to the top of show biz. She marries a beautiful cardboard man and realizes her most soaring dreams of love, only to lose him because she is more successful than...
...apart from might." All he has to do is locate the army psychiatrist who was shipped off to the bush because he wrote a medical report diagnosing Wynn's insanity. While looking, Mitchum consorts with France Nuyen, a plump little Eurasian nurse whose instinct for fair play seems limitless. "If you want to put your conscience on my pillow," she purrs, "it's all right with...