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...45th wedding anniversary with Lady Churchill. The London News Chronicle, viewing all this activity with approval, commented: "Now that he is back in the news, life as the inhabitants of Britain have come to know it assumes a more familiar and more comforting pattern. For what Wellington said of Napoleon is just as true of Sir Winston Churchill. His presence in the field is equal...
...Portuguese royal family, fleeing Napoleon's army, moved to Brazil, their biggest and richest colony. After the French had been driven out, King Joāo returned to Portugal, leaving Crown Prince Pedro (Isabel's grandfather), as regent. Rising nationalism persuaded the prince to declare Brazil independent and himself its Emperor Dom Pedro...
Borodino is a name often heard in Moscow. It is a village about 70 miles westward, where Marshal Kutusov's Russian army made a last-ditch stand against Napoleon in 1812, and where in World War II a hard-fought battle stopped the Germans. Red propagandists made a Soviet symbol of Borodino. When the Foreign Ministry planned its new skyscraper after the war, it chose a site overlooking the Borodino bridge by which the historic highway from the west enters Moscow. There last week top Soviet policymakers met to plot the strategy of a diplomatic Borodino...
...center of the U.S. television industry, old hands catalogued brash, upstart young Earl W. (for William) Muntz as merely another California screwball when he invaded their city and their business four years ago. They knew that "Madman" Muntz's zany advertising, depicting himself as a lunatic in a Napoleon hat ("I buy 'em retail, sell 'em wholesale. More fun that way!") had made him the used-car king of Los Angeles. But they assumed that the tough TV business would soon drive him really crazy...
Howling Massacre. The last scene began with a tableau of Napoleon's Grande Armée struggling in the snow. Then came a band of howling partisan-patriots to massacre the exhausted invaders...