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Always keenly sensitive to the political pulse-in those days at least-Khrushchev winged back to Moscow, called on Marshal Georgy Zhukov, then Defense Minister, who airlifted dozens of supporters into Moscow to back him in the subsequent Central Committee fight. That time he won; this time he didn't. Perhaps the opposition now was too solid; perhaps he could no longer find supporters in the armed forces; perhaps he was too weary to make the effort...
...Pitt Marshal's eight points led the Crimson rugby team to an 11-6 victory over M.I.T. Saturday...
...first colonel, who showed me the gift and art of command," says Charles de Gaulle in his memoirs, and he sorrowed in 1945 when Marshal Henri Pétain, hero of Verdun, was found guilty of treason for his chieftaincy of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime. De Gaulle commuted the old man's death sentence to life imprisonment. Now, 13 years after Pétain's death and burial on the Ile d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, the French press is alive with rumors that De Gaulle may accede to Pétain...
Cynical Hymns. While Lovely War has the cumulative impact of an artillery barrage, the show's tone evolves from fragmentary vignettes. Here is Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, whose suicidal "big pushes" cost more than 500,000 lives, announcing with pious conviction: "Machine-gun bullets have no stopping power against the horse." Here are veterans of phosgene attacks sardonically harmonizing "Gassed last night, and gassed the night before," followed closely by a home-front operatic duo warbling Roses of Picardy. There is a moving hands-across-the-trenches interlude in which German and British troops put down their guns...
...What you are fighting at Harvard," said another Negro student, "is liberal paternalism. You get admitted to the college because you are a Negro. You get a scholarship because you are a Negro. Everyone wants to be nice to you. Run for class marshal--no one can afford to vote against...