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...Impressed by a classic miscalculation of U.S. intelligence, both Ike and Bradley feared that German armies would form a "National Redoubt" in the all-but-impenetrable Alpine massif, and hoped to wipe out resistance in the area before the stronghold could be manned. "Not until after the campaign ended," Bradley wrote later, "were we to learn that this Redoubt existed largely in the imaginations of a few fanatic Nazis...
...only obstacle to Goulart's installation was a portion of Brazil's air force. Though all the service chiefs agreed to go along, the air force men in Brasilia still threatened to shoot Goulart down if he attempted to fly from his Pōrto Alegre stronghold to the capital. The revolt lasted only a few hours, and then Acting President Pascoal Mazzilli phoned Goulart that the way was clear. "I'll be ready to take off by noon," said Jango...
...succeeded in temporarily cowing Katanga's dissidents, it proved less effective in Eastern Province, stronghold of Communist-lining Antoine Gizen-ga. Three weeks ago. Gizenga accepted the post of Vice Premier in the central government of Cyrille Adoula. But he seemed to have changed his mind. He refused to go to Leopoldville to take up his job. Instead, he formed a new National Patrice Lumumba Party and began orating against the U.N. ("hostile to the Congo"). Last week his soldiers, apparently feeling that it is open season on all Western whites, roughed up U.S. Consul Thomas A. Cassilly...
...raced through the darkness to board a Varig Airlines Caravelle at Montevideo Airport. The jet slid across the border with lights doused as Jango washed down cold cuts with red wine by candlelight. Still in darkness, the plane set down in Brother-in-Law Brizzola's Porto Alegre stronghold. Brizzola introduced him as "chief of the armed forces and leader of all Brazilians," then was drowned out by ten minutes of nonstop cheering and shouts of "Jango! Jango!" from 35,000 frenzied spectators. Home was the President-though still in name only...
Even among railroadmen, the plan did not win unanimous applause. In the East, where passenger losses are heaviest, railroaders were cautiously delighted; a spokesman for the Pennsylvania allowed that his line would be happy to take any money it could get from anybody. But in the long-haul West, stronghold of profitable railroading, there were bitter cries that what the railroads needed was not more Government intervention but less...