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...Pearl Harbor was soon resurrected and the fleet rebuilt. Japan's shaky chance to keep the U.S. out of the war in the Pacific was irretrievably lost and Americans' will to win unquenchably ignited...
Indeed so: at age five, Sam Cummings, the son of a Philadelphia Main Line family, found an old German machine gun behind the local American Legion post and dragged it home. He rebuilt the gun and started collecting others. As a student on a term abroad at Oxford University, Cummings toured the armament-strewn battlefields of Europe, and there resolved to become a weapons dealer. Between college (George Washington University) and achieving his vocation, he spent three years working for the CIA, identifying guns captured during the Korean...
Background #1: James Dean--James Dean was born in 1931 in Fairmount, Indiana, a town which even today had a population of less than 4000 people. It was something of the quintessential small farm town; there was one school there were clapboard farm houses, a few stocky rebuilt motorcycles kept in the backs of barns...
Instead, the President proposed placing the first batch of 36 missiles, each carrying ten warheads, in rebuilt and "superhardened" Titan II missile sites in Arizona, Arkansas and Kansas. The President said he wanted to keep his options open on how to base the missiles permanently and pledged to make up his mind no later than by 1984. Three possibilities for that are now being studied...
...charges of criminal damage to property, mob action or aggravated battery. (All are free on bond.) Kerr-McGee President James G. Randolph, 51, a retired Air Force major general, flew to Galatia from corporate headquarters in Oklahoma City and ordered work resumed. The chain-link fence has been rebuilt. A score of bright yellow bulldozers, scrapers and earthmovers are growling back and forth, tossing up giant dust clouds as they level the site for shaft sinking. At night, the construction equipment is drawn up in a cluster under floodlights, covered-wagon style, for protection against sabotage. Admits Randolph: "We expected...