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Indeed, as Napoleon's little squadron sails northward to France through the British blockade, Herbert can hardly restrain a huzzah. Miraculous! he chortles. "The gods were on Napoleon's side." However, says Herbert, the decision to escape was by no means a pleasant one for Napoleon. The conqueror of Europe, Herbert assures his readers, wanted nothing but to make Elba "an island Athens," and "die peaceful and happy" there. "The charge is not that one man, through wild ambition, would not accept defeat. It is that the many, having no magnanimity, were unfit for victory." The book ends...
...Pennsylvania, the G.O.P. pulled steadily ahead. At 12:40, the New York Times swung its Manhattan beacon northward above the neon glow of Times Square, a signal that the Times accepted the Eisen hower victory as assured...
From Wheeling the Eisenhower special went southeastward across the Alleghenies to stop at Martinsburg, W.Va. Ike picked up a motorcade for a short circuit across western Maryland, reboarded his train at Frederick, rolled through the suburbs of Washington, then northward to Baltimore...
...sailing the voyagers saw not one ship or airplane. Food and water ran low. There were no fish to catch. Another storm blew the Miru north again. Then, 350 miles off the coast of South America, the sea turned ice-cold because of the rapid Peru Current which sweeps northward out of the Antarctic. By this time all the adults were getting one slim meal a day; Dr. Davis himself lost 25 Ibs. But the two small boys, not on rations, had gained weight, as small boys should...
Five hundred U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps bombers roared northward over Korea one day this week for the biggest bombing raid of the two-year-old Korean war. Their payload was more than bombs: they carried political explosives...