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Monday quarterbacks have been regretting that Eisenhower's armies did not attack Hitler through the Balkans instead of in France. Had the Western powers occupied southeastern Europe, containment of Russia would now be that much farther along. The fact is forgotten that by stabbing as they did, directly at the heart of Hitler's power, the West got a prize far more important than the Balkans. It got the Ruhr...
...Orleans, Rice, considered the best in the Southwest Conference, faced Louisiana State University, rated the pick of the Southeastern Conference. L.S.U. won, 21 to 14. The margin of difference was principally L.S.U.'s Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr., one of the nimblest and headiest T-formation quarterbacks in the business. Elsewhere in the South, two perennial powerhouses-Tennessee (to Georgia Tech, 27-0) and Alabama (to Tulane, 21-20)-lost their first games of the season...
...young Spaniard whose nom-de-guerre is Bob, and Paul's wife Simone. Paul, at 38, is a middle-class intellectual whose revolutionary sympathies, though they have not frozen him along a party line, have impelled him to become a leader among the maquisards of the Vercors, in southeastern France. Bob, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is already, at 24, a seasoned revolutionary soldier. Paul and Bob have developed a close father-&-son-and brain-&-bravery -friendship which is impaired when Bob is tortured by the Germans (for Paul is inadequate to restore his broken courage...
...myriads who may have attempted the ascent, Professor Toynbee distinguishes 26 civilizations. Of these there are only five active survivors: 1) Western civilization (Western Europe, the British Commonwealth, the U.S., Latin America); 2) Orthodox Christian civilization (Russia and the Orthodox sections of southeastern Europe); 3) Islamic civilization; 4) Hindu civilization; 5) Far Eastern civilization (China, Korea, Japan). Of these five, four show signs of imminent exhaustion, and the fifth, Western civilization, is breathing heavily...
...Determinedly protective of U.S. interests in southeastern Europe...