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...night episode, then talk about little else at the office water cooler the next morning. Magazines print charts detailing the convoluted relationships among the show's three-dozen- plus characters. Quirky scenes and dialogue have entered TV's collective memory bank, like Lucy's spread of doughnuts for Sheriff Truman and his deputies: "A policeman's dream." At George Washington University, students launched Thursday-night pie-eating rituals: everybody digs in as soon as FBI agent Cooper bites into a slice of cherry or huckleberry. Fans are trading theories about Laura's killer (the Log Lady? the sheriff?), while...
...analysis of the Pentagon, defense specialist Richard Halloran argues that the best way to eliminate the glut of low-intensity forces would be to meld the Marines into the Army. Although many experts agree with Halloran, any move in that direction would encounter huge political land mines. Harry Truman once tried to slash the Marines on the grounds that the Navy did not need its own army, but he was beaten by what he described as a Leatherneck "propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's." Aside from the clout of ten Senators and 21 Representatives in the current...
Back when political courage was a more abundant commodity, the military was actively used as a crucible for social integration. In 1948, Harry S Truman issued an executive order to begin desegregating the military, a process completed in the same year that school desegregation began. The Pentagon brass protested then as they protest now. But their protests didn't matter, because the military is subordinate to the civilian government in this country...
Term limitation is not a new idea. The Continental Congress precluded members from serving longer than three years in any six-year period. More recently, Presidents Truman and Eisenhower advocated a cutoff, as did the 1988 Republican Party platform. First-time candidates, too, often warm to the notion, but most back off after election. For addiction to office, Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini takes the prize. A staple of DeConcini's successful 1988 campaign for a third six-year term was his claim that he could better fight for a twelve-year limitation if he was in the Senate...
...list goes on. The Miami Heat have the NBA. Dewey had Truman. The Boston Bruins have the Montreal...well, at least this one's about to change...