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...years old now, but during World War II, when he was young, he was one of the Tuskegee airmen, the U.S. Army Air Corps's first unit of African-American combat pilots. He remembers traveling in the South with his fellow airmen and being forced out of his seat and into the Negroes-only car at the front of the train, where the soot and smoke were thickest, to make room for German pows. He recalls being barred from the cafeteria at military bases, where Italian pows were served hot meals. As he tells these stories, Dryden begins...
...Robert Torricelli, a feisty, partisan Democrat, is the strongest Democratic contender likely to run for Bradley's seat. Among the elephants, it's Rep. Dick Zimmer, a three-term fiscal conservative/pro-choicer...
...later, as she glides into the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. She says she's never been to a place so "posh" before, and the palpable glamour of the room, buzzing with dealmakers, seems to amuse her. A pianist is playing Gershwin songs as Bjork takes a seat at a table and divulges to a reporter her secret way of getting quicker service at snobby restaurants. Recently, when she was eating out, Bjork explains, "I had an apple in my bag, and so I picked it up and started eating it. There was a waiter there like this...
...room in the imperial air-raid shelter was virtually unventilated and sweltering when the Emperor arrived as the meeting began and took his seat on a small dais. The assembled leaders, headed by the Supreme Council's Big Six, as they were called, listened again to a reading of the Potsdam Declaration and then began debating three possible responses to the terms it imposed. One plan, favored by Suzuki and Togo, called for an acceptance of the Potsdam demands, with the sole condition that Hirohito and the imperial dynasty be retained in Japan...
This piece of the game plan is the clearest evidence that Gingrich learned from the last war. As co-chairman of the House G.O.P. health-care task force, he had a ringside seat for the White House debacle on that issue in 1994. Hillary Clinton's task force froze out powerful groups while the plan was being formulated, then tried to arouse public support by portraying insurance and drug companies as the villains of American health care...