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...what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia. It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil, he determined on the complete subjugation of Poland...
After a few short but interminable seconds, U.S. Astronaut Neil Armstrong placed his foot firmly on the fine-grained surface of the moon. The time was 10:56 p.m., E.D.T., July 20, 1969. Pausing briefly, the first man on the moon spoke the first words on lunar soil...
...Eagle transmitted their movements with remarkable clarity to enthralled audiences on earth, a quarter of a million miles away. Sometimes moving in surrealistic slow motion, sometimes bounding around in the weak lunar gravity like exuberant kangaroos, they set up experiments and scooped up rocks, snapped pictures and probed the soil, apparently enjoying every moment of their stay in the moon's alien environment...
...tried that experiment this summer. Three weeks after the plane first deposited me by myself on French soil, the school where I was taking a course offered an orientation movie for its newest arrivals. The film was sweet; three interwoven plots presented the theme "Discovering Paris" by tracking three sets of starry-eyed tourists from their arrival at the Gare du Nord through their respective monument studded days. The most romantic segment followed a beautiful blonde model from Copenhagen en route to a day's shooting. Arriving early in the morning, the model wandered happily up the Champs Elysees, down...
...Affairs, was to have closed Filipino opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino's speech on his return to the Philippines after three years of exile in the United States. But Aquino was never able to deliver those remarks: He was assassinated at the airport only minutes after returning to Filipino soil on August...