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...made to stand still," he recalls in this extraordinary book of prose and picture recollections. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." The book includes a fair number of famous Mili pictures doing just that: his own version of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon shell stopped at one-millionth of a second as it leaves the nose of a fighter plane; Pitcher Carl Hubbell's arm and hand caught in the act of committing a knuckle ball; Ballerina Nora Kaye transformed into a tornado of multiple images during a pas de bourr...
...true audience: millions of television viewers. As the Marine Corps Band played stirring renditions of Yankee Doodle and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, official guests in solemn procession arrived to take their positions. The Senate strode in with Leader Howard Baker in front, carrying his omnipresent 35-mm camera. Then came Vice President-elect Bush, President Carter, Vice President Mondale and the Justices of the Supreme Court. Finally, to the strains of the U.S. Army's Herald Trumpets playing Jubilant, Reagan arrived on the podium...
...Supper Club, older couples danced to an eleven-piece orchestra. Across the hallway, in the Salon Centre America dining room, three men chatted earnestly over coffee. Without warning, two well-dressed men stepped into the nearly deserted restaurant, pulled out automatic pistols and sprayed the three diners with 9-mm and .45-cal. gunfire, hitting them in the chests and heads. Moments later, they tucked their pistols into the waistbands of their trousers and calmly strode through the crowded hotel lobby and out into the warm night...
...Terming it "technical and humanitarian assistance," the Libyan leader dispatched a sizable military force into Chad last week, which all but ended the civil war. The Libyan invasion force included more than 4,000 infantry, backed by 50 Soviet-supplied T-54 and T-55 tanks, along with 122-mm rocket launchers, 81-mm mortars and even U.S.-built Chinook helicopters. Against such unexpected fire power, Habré's forces retreated across the Chari River into Cameroon. Two days later Habré agreed to a cease-fire sponsored by the Organization of African Unity...
Though a breakthrough continued to elude them, Iraqi forces were tightening a noose around the ports of Khorramshahr and Abadan on the bank of the Shatt al Arab waterway. Buttressed by batteries of 130-mm artillery, an estimated 9,000 Iraqi infantrymen, using three pontoon bridges, succeeded in crossing the Karun River. Their military command declared it "Iraq's largest amphibious assault ever." From that bridgehead Iraqi tanks fanned southward to surround both Khorramshahr and Abadan. The Iranians charged that the Iraqis bombarded both cities with artillery and with surface-to-surface missiles. Eyewitnesses said the carnage among civilians...