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...dispirited army regulars panicked at almost every confrontation. The powerful army unit ordered by Tshombe to drive the rebels out of Stanleyville poised menacingly just across the Congo River from the city, then turned and beat one of the fastest retreats in history - 560 miles to the rear in one day. At another major town, when a freak lightning bolt blew up an army powder magazine, the terrified garrison, convinced it was surrounded, fired back - in every direction...
...making his round, a team of probably three men was propping a ladder against the 20-foot wall outside. Swinging down inside on a rope ladder they had brought along, the determined crew dashed across 20 yards of open space and up the steps to the rear of cell block...
Insurance men attribute their woes to an impressive array of factors. They cite rising crime rates, more auto accidents and higher costs for repairs and medical care; repairing a new Chevrolet's dented rear fender, which cost $16.85 twenty years ago, now costs $149.75. Dishonest and fraudulent claims have risen steadily, and juries seem as quick to give out generous awards as state insurance commissions are slow to allow rate increases. As if all these troubles were not enough, the industry has contributed to its dilemma by engaging in a ruinous rate...
...time, no one grasped what had happened on that September day in 1781. George III called it "a drawn battle." To Rear Admiral Thomas Graves, who flubbed the encounter, it was "a lively skirmish"; to his second in command, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Hood, "a feeble action"; to George Washington, its greatest beneficiary, "a partial engagement." There is not even agreement on its name. Says Author Larrabee: "You will find it called the Battle of the Chesapeake, of Chesapeake Bay, of Lynnhaven Bay, of Cape Henry, and of the Capes of Virginia." To this day not many Americans have heard...
Hide & Seek. Rodney had misjudged both the skill and the intentions of an adversary who had just reached the Indies: Francois Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Louis XVI's "lieutenant general of the naval army" (equivalent to rear admiral). De Grasse, who stood 6 ft. 2 in. and looked 6 ft. 6 in. on days of battle, had prepared for his finest hour by getting captured by the British when he was 25. From Washington, Lafayette and Rochambeau went a stream of messages to De Grasse, urging him to assert Franco-American naval supremacy somewhere along the coast. Washington...