Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States-it will be responsible for the first nonracial societies in Africa." He warned that the U.S. should not judge Britain by the ban-the-bombers, "a few whose minds are as fluffy as their beards." He added: "Do not be misled into thinking us soft. Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers. The memorial to him in London is a railway station called Waterloo. Shopkeepers we may be, but neither our principles nor our alliances are for sale...
Last War. It was Von Wiegand's last war, but far from the end of his career. In 1945, he flashed a perceptive alarm to the West about the "Red Russian tidal flood . . . The war has loosened upon Europe the most powerful imperialistic force since Napoleon-totalitarian, Communist Soviet Russia." Eyesight failing, he roved restlessly about his old international haunts, a derring-do journalist, lost in the geopolitical maze of another era. In 1959, from New Delhi, he sent up another rocket: "Soviet Russia and Red China reportedly have agreed in Peiping to divide the globe north...
Dolls & Toy Soldiers. Alexandre was brought up on the French Riviera. Born Alexandre Raimondi, he claims descendance from a general who fought against Napoleon in the Italian campaign. Though he has carefully preserved the sabre and other military relics of his illustrious ancestor, Alexandre says: "From a very early age, I preferred dolls to toy soldiers, dolls whose hair I could work up into curls and chignons." Shortly after World War II he was discovered by the Begum Aga Khan, having already won a local reputation as "The King of the Egg Shampoo"; the Begum passed...
...aviation, but the Industrial Revolution was transforming England; bold ideas were sprouting in a climate of change. In 1792 Cayley was already experimenting with a model helicopter. He came down to earth for a while in 1804 and designed artillery shells for the British navy to shoot at Napoleon. But his journal shows that he was also searching for a light, powerful engine to drive some sort of airplane. In 1809 he published an extraordinary scientific treatise, "On Aerial Navigation," that outlines most of the principles of aeronautics...
...obligingly wrote La Fayette's old mistresses about his troubles. Somehow she managed to get back to France herself to lead the fight for La Fayette's return. In the end, she forged a passport for her husband, got him into the country, and then persuaded Napoleon to let the old firebrand stay. She thereupon took on the job of rebuilding the family fortune-and being polite to La Fayette's newest muddle of mistresses...