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...darkness as they went to the meeting. It was just before 4 a.m. on June 5,1944, and the rain slashed at them "in horizontal streaks," Dwight Eisenhower recalled later. The commanders of Operation Overlord were gathering around the fireplace in the library of Southwick House, outside Portsmouth, to hear a Scottish group captain named J.M. Stagg predict the next day's weather. On the basis of Stagg's calculations, Eisenhower would have to decide whether to give the attack order to the nearly 3 million troops assembled in southern Britain for the greatest seaborne invasion in history, the assault...
...northern coast of Normandy. They lay 100 miles from the great British ports of Southampton and Portsmouth, a span that no invader had successfully crossed in nearly three centuries. The Allies spent two years turning all of southern Britain into an arsenal and point of departure. They built 163 new airfields. They shipped in 2 million tons of weapons and supplies, 1,500 tanks, mountains of food and fuel. Since the targeted beachfront lacked harbors, Allied engineers built two enormous artificial harbors that could be towed across the Channel and moored in place once the beaches were...
...reading magazines or staring out the window. This week Hart aides tried to find their man a "sage" on the order of Mondale's Jim Johnson or John Reilly. But the two would-be wise men-Mark Hogan, a former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, and Ronald Dozoretz, a Portsmouth, Va., psychiatrist who is active in state politics-are neither national political heavyweights nor particularly close to Hart. Hart's staff fears that the candidate is burning out. "I keep asking him to take a night off and go to a movie," says Press Secretary Kathy Bushkin. Yet Hart...
...Mondale juggernaut, meanwhile, was demonstrating that it was as adept at doorbell-to-doorbell combat as it is in harvesting endorsements. Said Agnes Tomkinson, 79, of Portsmouth: "They all keep calling me on the phone and I don't know...
...nominated," contended Joe Reed, chairman of the all-black Alabama Democratic Conference, which has endorsed Mondale for President and Jackson for Vice President. Jackson, naturally, took a more upbeat view. "God will provide," he said. "Who could have ever imagined that there would be a black pilot from Portsmouth, N.H., being held in a jail in Damascus?" His plans to hold a political rally with Goodman in Portsmouth on Saturday were nixed by the Navy, which said its regulations forbid political appearances by servicemen...