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...Half a century before Lenin was born, omniscient Napoleon Bonaparte was concerned with Red revolutionism to the East. He turned his back on Britain, and valiantly drove his troops into a cruel Russian winter in a glorious effort to thwart the future threat of monolithic Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Lyndon's Own Epic | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...G.O.P. presidential nomination on April 30, precisely 100 days remained until the balloting was to begin in Miami. Last week, despite enthusiastically cheering crowds and some other encouraging signs, there was increasing worry among his followers that Nelson's Hundred Days might well wind up as Napoleon's did-with a Waterloo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Nelson's Hundred Days | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...Napoleon Wellington Oedipus Jocasta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: An Arbitrary Guide to Soul | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

Ever since Napoleon drove them from Malta in 1798 in order to use it as a way station for his invasion of Egypt, the Knights of Malta have not been allowed to return to the island whose name they bear. Last week Malta welcomed back its knights, who are members of the Roman Catholic Church's oldest chivalric order. To the crash of a 21-gun salute, a delegation of knights in regal red and black uniforms and feather-plumed helmets, led by Grand Master Fra Angelo de Mojana di Cologna, a Milanese nobleman, landed at the Maltese capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malta: Knightly Return | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...throats and lips, she was eventually able to verbalize the words she visualized in her mind. At eleven, she was raising money for the benefit of other blind children. She traveled. She wrote stories. She maintained an animated correspondence with writers and clerics; Mark Twain named Miss Keller and Napoleon "the two most interesting characters of the 19th century." At the turn of the 20th, Helen Keller went to college at Radcliffe, where she was to graduate cum laude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: A Life of Joy | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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