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...imperialists won a Pyrrhic victory. The fight over Eyre, writes Semmel, had pricked the conscience of the nation. It had launched a dialogue between the supporters of empire and the supporters of democracy that would culminate eventually in a victory for democracy-and in Great Britain's liquidation of the world's greatest empire...
...Namche Bazar, where a helicopter hustled them to the United Mission Hospital at Katmandu. Now recovered from respiratory infections, both men are still under treatment for severe cases of frostbite-with doctors hoping that only the tips of their toes may have to be amputated. And was their victory Pyrrhic? "An experience like Everest," says Bishop, "is something you wouldn't trade for anything, but wouldn't repeat. I had my one moment of truth, and one is enough...
Marcel Marceau, a mime conceivably without living equal, celebrates the Pyrrhic victories of the human spirit. He is a pantomimic accountant of the laughably saddening costs of being human. Mimicking a dynamiter, he blows himself up at pre cisely the moment when he is casually admiring his technical know-how. As a partygoer, he pirouettes through all the socia graces, only to get stupidly, staggering!) drunk. With his toes seemingly reading a tightrope in faltering braille, he teeters across the high wire, but only after the audience is made to know that courage can be the vanity of cowards...
...face of it. Hughes's victory seems a Pyrrhic one. For the $5,000,000 that he will pay Atlas, Hughes will get control of an airline that lost $9.4 million last year and currently reports a "net worth deficiency" of $23.4 million. Merely to keep the line alive is certain to cost Hughes many millions more. And by decreeing that transactions between Hughes Tool Co. and Northeast may not exceed $100,000 a year without its specific approval, the CAB seems to have ruled out a lucrative trick that Hughes used to practice with Trans World Airlines: buying...
...session began with a Pyrrhic victory for the Administration. Hoping to clear the way for New Frontier legislation, the Administration pushed through a resolution aimed at "liberalizing" the powerful House Rules Committee. But if that move had any visible effect, it was only to push conservative Southerners, led by Rules Chairman Howard Smith of Virginia, into closer coalition with the Republican minority under Indiana's Charles Halleck...