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Like their pioneer ancestors who traveled west in covered wagons, American vacationers hitting the roads this summer will take their beds with them. From Maine's Acadia National Park to Zion National Park in Utah and beyond, 7 million recreational vehicles will be on the road. They range from small folding trailers that barely accommodate four people and cost about $2,500 to sumptuous 30-ft. motor coaches that comfortably sleep six or more and are laden with microwave ovens, walnut paneling and air conditioners, all for a neat...
...ended and retired nine years ago to Enghien-les-Bains outside Paris after more than three decades of military service in Korea, Viet Nam and Europe. Lantagne, a native of Lewiston, Me., remembers that he was tending German and American wounded in a village church not far from Utah Beach when the village was recaptured by the Germans. "A high-ranking German, accompanied by troops with automatic weapons, suddenly burst into the church. They looked at us, at the bloodstained pews and the German wounded, then turned around and went out without saying anything." Lantagne has befriended some...
...rank to lieutenant colonel and sent back to the U.S. As the invasion was about to begin, Leonard Dawe, a physics teacher who composed crossword puzzles for the London Daily Telegraph, was grilled by Scotland Yard detectives. They could not believe Dawe was unaware that such words as Utah, Omaha, Neptune and Overlord, all of which had appeared in his puzzles, were code names connected with Dday...
...years ago at New York City's Bronx Zoo, Flossie, a Holstein dairy cow, gave birth to a gaur (rhymes with tower), a rare type of wild ox that inhabits the forests of South Asia. In 1977 two wild Sardinian sheep were born to a domestic sheep at Utah State University...
...past two years, the orchestras of Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, San Francisco and Utah have filled conductorial vacancies, and at least seven other U.S. ensembles are searching. Cleveland, Detroit and San Francisco were forced to reach outside the narrow circle of superstars for Christoph von Dohnányi, Gunther Herbig and Herbert Blomstedt, Europeans relatively obscure to U.S. audiences. Others have breached the prejudice against Americans, as Baltimore did in hiring David Zinman...