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...battle of New Orleans (Jan. 8, 1815) is remembered as one of the least fortunate maneuvers in British military history (over 2,000 British casualties, 71 American) and as the springboard that launched General Andrew Jackson on his way to the presidency. It now enjoys a third distinction as the subject of a pop disk, The Battle of New Orleans (Columbia), which has sold some threequarter million copies in less than a month. The recorded Battle is the handiwork of Louisiana Country Singer Johnny Horton, but the song has been played by bayou fiddlers for generations. Singer Horton toned down...
...pundits who had been hailing the rising presidential prospects of New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller suddenly saw Vice President Nixon's future with new clarity. Wrote the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout: "It is hard to imagine a better springboard for a presidential candidacy...
...just part of the sterling bloc? Would Britain have full sovereignty over its Cyprus bases-including the right to launch military action from Cyprus without the consent of the Cypriot government? At stake was whether the British could use the base not only for NATO purposes but as a springboard in Middle East trouble spots, such as Kuwait and Oman, as Britain used it for Suez and Jordan. What would be the citizenship status of the thousands of Greek Cypriots now living in the United Kingdom on British passports, of Cypriot Turks resident in Turkey, and of the Cypriot-born...
...State of the Union. His message was closely reasoned, bluntly presented with occasional flashes of eloquence, and positive in its nature. Dwight Eisenhower urged and set forth a program for fiscal responsibility, not of the sort that stifles growth but of the kind that can stand as a springboard for national progress...
...happening in Africa," said Nehru, playing his role as Big Brother of anticolonialism. Then Nkrumah rose to say that as a student in the U.S., he had read Nehru's books and asked himself, "Why isn't that man in Africa?" He called Ghana "the springboard for the final liberation of the African continent . . . Africa," he cried, "must be free...