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...Before Dday, Ike had listed Berlin as his primary military target, a priority made on the assumption that the Wehrmacht would concentrate about the city and defend it to the death. In September 1944, Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery urged "one really powerful and full-blooded thrust toward Berlin" through northern Germany. "Clearly, Berlin is the main prize," Ike answered. He added that a slower, "broad front" advance would better accomplish the Allies' main object: destroying Germany's military strength. By moving en masse, the AEF would thus be able to seize the industrial heart...
Before Hammarskjold, the U.N.'s big achievement had been the intervention in Korea to halt the southward thrust of Asia's Communists.* It was essentially not a U.N. action but a U.S. action with U.N. sanction; in the field, it ended with tragic indecision. When he took over three years after the Korea decision, Hammarskjold, a Swedish diplomat whose name was not only unpronounceable but virtually unknown in the rest of the world, approached his task with modest caution. Few spotted the fire behind those distant blue eyes. Then came the 1954 U.N. resolution urging the release...
Whistles & Boos. With true Gallic instinct for the wrong moment, the National Assembly last week thrust its own challenge at De Gaulle-almost as if to show that it was not moved by the assassination attempt. Since last April, the Assembly had chafed under the constitution's Article 16, which gave De Gaulle power to brush aside the debates of the Deputies as "Fourth Republic games" and run France as he pleased. To protest against De Gaulle's emergency powers, the Assembly chose a purely technical issue. De Gaulle's Premier Michel Debre bluntly refused a special...
...counterpart to European student unions. It claims to represent the entire student body at each of some 400 campuses-around 1,000,000 students. The constitution specifically limits N.S.A. to issues affecting "students in their role as students," for example, academic standards. But as collegians thrust aside their 1950s apathy, N.S.A. took political positions. Recent resolutions (some of them adopted only after hot debate) include disapproval of nuclear testing, loyalty oaths, compulsory R.O.T.C. and the House Un-American Activities Committee. N.S.A. warmly approves the U.S. Peace Corps and the Southern sit-in movement, which the executive committee has backed morally...
Poised behind home plate, his masked face thrust over the catcher's left shoulder, burly (6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.) Frank Dascoli, 48, seemed the epitome of the big-league baseball umpire. His gestures were flamboyant and unmistakable; his concentration was intense. His calls were sure: this season a writers' poll voted him the best ball caller in the business. Relying on his "fast thumb" (he once ejected 18 players from an exhibition game), Dascoli insisted on absolute obedience in every game he worked. But good as he was, Dascoli committed the umpire's unforgivable...