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...anniversary evoked memories for many millions who never got near Normandy. All across the U.S. that Tuesday people had offered prayers. Parents and wives of servicemen, whatever their personal fears, could at last believe that the ordeal's end was beginning. Somehow the event seems even more distant than 30 years. There have been other wars, changing alliances, crises. None has stimulated the exultant unity of which D-day was the ensign. Hope, the real victor at Normandy and later World War II battlefields, went on to suffer a succession of blows that only now may be relenting...
...upper Egypt, her exhausting itinerary included treks to the distant temples of Luxor, Karnak and Abu Simbel, with the Aswan dam thrown in. Through it all, she asked enthusiastic questions, and the ordeal was considerably mitigated by the warmth of the Sadats. Said the Egyptian President: "You are a part of Henry's family here...
...disease proved atypical, and he lived beyond his allotted span. The best description the doctors could find for it was "smoldering leukemia," and between periods of hospitalization he had remissions during which he felt fine, wrote his columns and sometimes even played tennis. But he went through an ordeal of uncertainty, savagely ranging between hope and despair. Out of that ordeal he wrote his memorable book, Stay of Execution, an almost classic deathbed testament that is partly day-by-day diary of the progress and recession of a deadly disease, partly reflections and recollections of the good life...
...yellow pads late at night ("How's my master plan, God dear? What have you got coming up?"). By folk wisdom, like "Move the body" (she pedaled endless miles on a stationary bicycle). By psychiatric therapy. By working hard at her job. By just waiting out the ordeal. (She has not remarried.) How would she do it differently if she had to do it again? She would talk about death more openly to her husband, to her children. She would not try to stiff-upper-lip it through. And she would have couples make financial preparations-by seeing...
...tradition of British husband-and-wife writing teams, the Baileys exercise considerable reserve in sharing the more personal aspects of their ordeal. "We talked without the encumbrances of modern living; we explored the hidden depths of each other's characters," Maralyn at one time confides. But that is as much as either Bailey will allow in a book that is essentially an expansion of water-logged diaries kept during the trip, plus photographs, maps and useful illustrations. Just this capacity for even-keeled privacy seems to have pulled them through. "In some weird and detached way," Maralyn concludes...