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...great breach in the wall of silence about the ancient world is the Old Testament. This extraordinary book pulses with the record of stirring events that took place 1,500 years before Herodotus. Armies march and kings conspire in its lively pages. Prophets thunder their warnings; courtiers and diplomats conspire subtly. Commoners love and hate, worship and sin, bear children and tend their vineyards...
...splashed the rotunda, and a million people lined the streets of Washington. Shortly before 11 a.m., nine servicemen slid the casket from its catafalque, bore it haltingly, laboriously down the 36 Capitol steps past the black-clothed ranks of John Kennedy's family. The drums began a muffled thunder. There was a gnashing of metal as the military men loaded it aboard the glistening black caisson, the same that carried the coffin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 18 years...
...Toward Communist Shores." What do the uneasy partners expect to get out of the coalition? The Christian Democrats hope that participation in the government will educate the Socialists to the responsibilities of power, produce the necessary backing for economic and social reforms that may steal political thunder from the Communists (who did alarmingly well in the last elections). For the Socialists, the lure of Cabinet portfolios offers the opportunity to shape Italy's future along Marxist lines, before enlightened capitalists make socialism and its slogans thoroughly obsolete...
...produced his documented recollections of the men and events that are still well-remembered headlines to all but junior readers. Dwight Eisenhower's account of his first term in office (1953-56) is fat, flat and informal. Eisenhower is no Churchill. There is neither the thunder of oratory nor the sweep of history here. Instead, there is the sense of an earnest man trying to do his best. Admirers will find in its unadorned prose the reassuring image of the President who tried to put himself above politics. Critics will find in it the exasperating ability to slide away...
...biggest, fastest troop lift ever attempted. For three days and three nights, the endless whine of jet engines and the thunder of a thousand propellers pierced the air at a dozen U.S. airbases from Texas to Virginia as 206 Military Air Transport Service planes hauled 15,278 soldiers to bases in Germany. Normally it would take six weeks to transport a full division overseas, even longer to get it into combat. Big Lift was designed to move a full armored division from the U.S. to Europe in 72 hours, equip it with heavy hardware "prepositioned" at depots near the front...