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...anthem, The Battle Hymn of the Republic. It was sung at his express command and in homage to the honorary U.S. citizenship granted him in 1963. It was also symbolic of his lifetime dream of a closer union between the two nations whose blood flowed in his veins. The martial thunder of the old abolitionist hymn, with its stern New England pieties, may at first have sounded startling in Christopher Wren's graceful English Renaissance church, but it was one with the Churchillian spirit-militant, sonorous, confident of being in the right. The church that symbolized the survival...
...special train some 60 miles into the heart of Oxfordshire, to rest beside the graves of his English father and his American mother in the small parish churchyard at Bladon. A few hundred yards away is Winston Churchill's birthplace, Blenheim Palace, the grandiose home of his martial ancestor, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough...
...killings brought to 32 the number of Filipinos slain on U.S. bases since 1952. Under the U.S.-Philippine 99-year military-base treaty, American courts-martial have jurisdiction over U.S. servicemen, whether their transgressions are committed while on duty or off. This angers many Filipinos, who feel that Filipino courts should try off-duty offenders-and Washington has in fact indicated that it is willing to make concessions on this point...
...mummy who falls in love with a middle-aged American archaeologist, who has dug her, and causes him to abandon his shrill wife. Bertha von Paraboum, identified as Eine Deutsche Kreatur, wears high black boots, a flowing red boa, and a garter. As the loudspeakers blare the sort of martial music that would have stirred Von Ribbentrop, Bertha von Paraboum for the first time turns to face the audience fully, and there, serving as a G-string, is a swastika. Victoria Nankin is billed as "the Yé-Yé Widow." To show her grief, Bernardin has veiled her nude...
...martial music began one night at 11:30 and the first slogan was: "1965 shall witness fundamental developments in strengthening the foundations of the regime!" That seemed to rule out a coup. At 1:30 a.m. the radio came clean: the announcer read off four new decrees that will take Syria's wobbly Baath (Renaissance) socialist government far down the Marxist road and virtually wipe out private ownership of Syria's major industries...