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...with Hitler giving his generals the date for the invasion of Poland: Sept. 1. As the series progresses, other events familiar from the history books fly by: the fall of France, the Battle of Britain, the German attack on the Soviet Union and, finally, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Wouk, who wrote the screenplay from his 885-page novel, ingeniously invented a witness to these dramatic events, Victor ("Pug") Henry, a commander (later captain) in the U.S. Navy. Sent to Berlin as the American naval attache in the spring of 1939, Henry, played by Robert Mitchum, meets...
...noodles or sit around the noodle table. He almost always wears the same outfit, a double-breasted check suit flapping open without a tie, and a green hat. He is a boor, and he treats his long-suffering family like servants. But the Japanese, who know all about pearl fishing, believe that beneath that crusty shell is a treasure of kindness and concern...
...Japanese pilots found the American planes at Pearl Harbor parked wingtip to wingtip. The high brass had ordered this arrangement because it was easier to protect the aircraft from sabotage. Today we would call it Dense Packed...
...vote, Reagan summoned 76 Congressmen to the White House for a sales pitch from himself, Vice President George Bush and Weinberger. The President warned against turning the imminent Dec. 7 vote into another Pearl Harbor. Still, his enthusiasm for Dense Pack was far from contagious. He called it "the option with the least warts." Weinberger worked the telephones hard, pressing Congressmen to support all of the MX funding. He called one Representative three times, finally getting an impatient reply: "I'm a no vote. If I changemy mind, I'll call...
During the debate, anti-Dense Pack Congressmen had a field day ridiculing the unproven "fratricide" and silo-hardening theories. "Pearl Harbor was the original Dense Pack," said California Democrat John Burton, reversing Reagan's argument. Iowa Republican James Leach called the attempts to harden silos beyond anything ever achieved "a public works project for the cement industry...