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...Terrain. Deiss chooses to tell his story from his subject's point of view, in a first-person chronicle supposedly set down by Frederick at the end of his life, the device used so well by Marguerite Yourcenar in Hadrian's Memoirs. To some extent the method sacrifices dramatic force-violence recollected in relative tranquillity is only the shadow of violence. But although Frederick, as warrior and sensualist, was at the center of many dramas, his life was lived in the far and lonely terrain of his own mind...
...well-used places and things. But sometimes Sivard gets so carried away in his kindly lampoons that there is a detail too many, and the end result is no better than a merely slick magazine cover. His most impressive paintings are from that unpainted and usually humorless terrain, Russia, which Sivard saw out of the corner of his eye when in 1958 he handled negotiations for the American National Exhibition in Moscow, and came back home to Washington with enough sketches to keep his evenings and weekends busy ever since...
...hear some people tell it, a modern U.S. military man should study Kafka as well as Clausewitz, since the terrain he must now operate in is more like Kafka's maze than Clausewitz's certainties. In a day of allies, proxy battles and limited wars, the military needs a whole new technical arsenal-politics, diplomacy, science, economics-to enable it to employ precise degrees of power in imprecise situations. All this asks of U.S. officers unprecedented competence, character and wisdom...
With its stupefying temperatures and bleak terrain, Britain's Aden Colony on the southwestern fringe of the Arabian Peninsula is one of the world's most unattractive pieces of real estate. But it has its value nonetheless. Between Suez and Singapore, it is the only suitable fueling and victualing station for the British navy, and 8,000 troops of Her Majesty's Middle East Command are stationed on its 75 square miles of overheated rock...
...m.p.h., a maximum speed of 86 m.p.h., a range of 200 miles and an endurance of three hours in the air. Special effects include a 360° visibility, a tinted canopy to protect against sun glare, and air-oil shock-absorbing landing skids that "smooth out" the roughest terrain. It is also economical-13? a mile by Hughes's estimate. With 53 dealers already signed up and expectations of many more, Hughes has stepped up production to one copter a day, confident the idea will soon catch...