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...Skelton, Iraq's Strongman Premier Nuri asSaid believes in the custom of summer replacements. Last week, as Baghdad's asphalt sidewalks turned sticky-soft in the sweltering desert heat, Nuri turned over Iraq's government to Senator Ali Jawdat, then went back to poring over a map on which was circled in ink the fashionable south German spa, Bühlerhohe, near Baden-Baden. First, Nuri confided, he was going to London for a medical checkup, then off to the Black Forest. Later he was returning to London briefly to look after two grandsons who are entering...
Those vivid pictures and your map of Middle Africa "bring homesickness" (vi koka ongeva) to one just back from Africa. Your writer, however, brushes off Christianity as "Catholicism in the Congo, Anglicanism in British East Africa, isolated settlements of other Protestant religions elsewhere. Numerically, Christian conversions are few." A conservative estimate gives at least 8,000,000 Protestants and 13,000,000 Roman Catholics in Middle Africa, and the Christian community has been doubling itself about every 15 years...
...Lepanto, or Trafalgar. Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of victory at Pearl Harbor, had flung a vast armada of 200 ships and 700 planes across the Pacific to Wake Island and to the Aleutians, with the spearhead pointing toward a remote, strategic atoll called Midway (see map). His plan was to seize Midway, "sentry for Hawaii," draw out what was left of the U.S. fleet, and win the war quickly before U.S. industrial might could be brought to bear. "In the last analysis," he argued, "the success or failure of our entire strategy in the Pacific will...
...hill that anchored the southern end of the Union line, Ike and Monty agreed that Pickett's famous charge across nearly a mile of open fields exposed to Union guns had been illadvised. "Gosh, look at that, just look at that," said the President, as he studied a map. "Why you'd go across that, I don't know. I just don't know." Said Monty crisply: "Monstrous thing. It was an absolutely monstrous thing." Said Ike of Robert E. Lee, who ordered the charge: "You can't imagine what was on his mind...
...Austrian figure of fun, a degenerate young aristocrat who always says stupid things that are somehow not so stupid after all. Example: when the tide began to turn against the Nazis, Graf Bobby went into a map store one day and asked for a globe of Germany...