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...turned on a great gusher that armed and propelled Allied forces back onto the Continent. Without that, there would have been no D-day, no march toward Berlin, no victory of any kind. "The American war-production job was probably the greatest collective achievement of all time," said Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board from 1942 to 1944. "It makes the seven wonders of the ancient world look like the doodlings of a small boy on a rainy Saturday afternoon." A boast perhaps, but the men who stormed into Normandy 50 years ago succeeded in large measure because...
There are ceremonial differences too. When new President Nelson Mandela enters the House, he is preceded by a loinclothed, jackal-skinned imbongi -- a traditional Xhosa praise singer. And in a multiracial assembly that represents 11 languages, several religions and any number of different churches, the traditional opening prayer -- once led by a minister of religion -- is out, replaced by a minute of silence for personal meditation...
...Paso let him be until Horses made the best-seller lists and the local paper took stock of what was in town. Then came the dreaded rap at McCarthy's door. The reporter, Robert Nelson, young and just out of school in Nebraska, had been by four or five times, had knocked until his knuckles hurt, but no one had answered. This time a face, a high forehead, came moonlike to the black copper screen...
...McCarthy, my name is Bob Nelson, and I'm with the El Paso Times, and I wanted to know if there was any chance you would spend any time with me or in any way let me write anything about...
...Nelson went away -- went back to Lincoln, Nebraska, in fact, after a brief tour with the newspaper. A year passed, and then the other day a Fleet Street reporter took a run at McCarthy at Luby's Cafeteria, where he sat with his coffee and his soup and his periodicals. "I'm sorry, son," said McCarthy, "but you're asking me to do something I just...