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With his violent nationalism and anti-Semitic rhetoric, Zhirinovsky seems the perfect Hitler figure for a possible takeover. Even Zhirinovsky's autobiography The Last Thrust to the South has been likened to Mein Kampf by members of the Library of Congress...
These passages come from Zhirinovsky's autobiography, The Last Thrust to the South, a book that James Billington, U.S. Librarian of Congress, calls "in some respects psychologically an even more unstable work than Mein Kampf." In it, Zhirinovsky recounts in extravagant detail the injustices of an emotionally and economically deprived childhood in Alma-Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan...
Robert Zemeckis' new movie, "Forrest Gump" is the story of a young, simple boy whose life is filled with coincidental encounters with the major historical events of the last 50 years. He inspires Elvis' famous pelvic thrust, shakes the hand of many presidents (even bringing some of them to their demise--read, Richard Nixon) and finally marries the girl of his dreams. Seems too good to be true? It's Hollywood...
During the opening hours of battle, North Korea would have a pronounced edge. After the initial thrust across the DMZ, its forces would head south, with thousands of infantry streaming through the smoking gaps in the South Korean lines ahead of T-62 and T-55 tanks and armored personnel carriers. Commandos and vehicles would move through secret tunnels to sabotage Allied positions from the rear. Over the next days and weeks, North Korea would try to encircle Seoul and gobble up much of the rest of the peninsula before U.S. reinforcements would arrive...
...Alan S. Manne '44-'43 found himself abruptly thrust into a position of responsibility aboard the Baltimore, a cruiser in the Pacific fleet...