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...Omaha Beach and Utah Beach. To the east, a force of 75,000 men, drawn mostly from Lieut. General Sir Miles Dempsey's British Second Army but also including a Canadian division and an assortment of French, Polish and Dutch troops, would invade three adjoining beaches, Gold, Juno and Sword. Some 16,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions would drop in first to guard the western flank against counterattacks, and 8,000 men of the British 6th Airborne would seize and guard the eastern flank...
...following month, Bai was given a national award for his poetry by the Ministry of Culture. When Bai wrote another play last year, he took the precaution of setting it in the uncontroversial past. Sure enough, however, King of Wu 's Spear and King of Yue's Sword was castigated for "attacking the present by explaining the past." Says another noted playwright: "The general attitude of intellectuals is wait and see. There are still gusts of wind. It will take time to cool down...
Bernal protested the decision, but to no avail. The Crimson camp was feeling very frustrated. "What could we do?" asked Co-Captain Courtney Roberts. "We could just use that anger in the pool." At the time, Bernal said that the disqualification could act as "a double-edged sword," equally capable of helping or hurting the team's morale...
...firms filed for bankruptcy. By 1983 that figure had ballooned to 17,608. The causes: the recession and its aftermath, and a 1978 overhaul of the Bankruptcy Code that permits troubled, but not insolvent, firms to declare bankruptcy. The 1978 change has made bankruptcy both a shield and a sword. Robert Miller, executive vice president of Congress Financial Corp., a commercial lending institution, supports the Bildisco decision but finds the growth of bankruptcies disturbing. Says he: "Any time a company makes a bad business deal, whether it's a union contract or a lease, it can resort to Chapter...
...over at Dartmouth the Judiciary Committee of the Intrafraternity Council brought Sigma Nu in for a hearing just because of "its snow sculpture, which depicted a sword embedded in a woman's breast...