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...aficionados well know, it was Lieutenant Hornblower who decimated "Boney's" Spanish fleet in the West Indies in 1800, Commander Hornblower who intercepted the French troops that Napoleon tried to sneak into Ireland in 1804, Commodore Hornblower who inspired Sweden to join the war and gave Czar Alexander the courage to stand up and fight in 1812. And when the end finally came at Waterloo, there was Lord Hornblower, leading a band of guerrillas that tied up nine battalions of Napoleon's troops. Not until now, however, did anyone guess that it was young Captain Hornblower...
Rust & Shipyards. "Napoleon could pay for big works; so he got big works," says Sam Green. City governments and corporations are already beginning to play a similar role. Chase Manhattan Bank thinks nothing of setting aside $100,000 a year for sculpture and paintings for their banks. Sculptor James Wines has finished an ll-ft.-high piece for Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., in Nutley, N.J. In Los Angeles, Alcoa's huge new Century City complex will be complemented by a 30-ft.-long, 8-ft.-high Peter Voulkos...
...Eastern Seaboard. And they were still around three decades later when the U.S. indignantly went to war to put an end to Britain's interference with U.S. trade with France, to stop the British navy from kidnaping American sailors and forcing them to serve in the war against Napoleon...
...girl turns out to be a bugged housewife (Anne Jackson) with even more identity crises than he. She is surrounded by mink coats, but only wants a sheepskin to prove that she has a mind. He is merely a hero-worshiping intellectual-his walls are covered with pictures of Napoleon, Schweitzer and Einstein-who wants to be a womanizing tiger...
...allowing the university to decree when and how long parietals may be operative, the masters arrogate to themselves the right of determining an official schedule or time-table of sexual intimacy. Like Napoleon, who could tell at any given moment what was being taught in the schools of France, the masters and deans can estimate at certain designated hours the activities going on in a fair proportion of Harvard Houses. The rule of thumb by which the masters calculate the number of parietal hours belongs more appropriately in a novel by Jonathan Swift. Are they saying that below a certain...