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Last week Jack got what Jack wanted, but it took an awful lot of desire. The course this year was Scotland's Muirfield links beside the Firth of Forth, a seaside torture pit that resembles Verdun after the battle. Bunk ers like shell craters pock the narrow fairways, and the thick, encroaching rough grows three feet high in spots. "You need a search warrant to get in that stuff," complained South Africa's Harold Henning. Adding to the misery, the howling winds dried the already fast greens to billiard-table speed. "It'll be the same...
...Illinois Boxing Commission canceled his March 29 title bout with Ernie Terrell in Chicago. Louisville didn't want him either, nor did Pittsburgh or Bangor, Me. At last the desperate Muslim-backed promoters looked outside the country, only to be turned down in Montreal and its suburb of Verdun. "We'll hold the fight on a raft in the St. Lawrence River," wailed Promoter Robert Arum. Or maybe in a Saigon...
After an auspicious start, however, Guns runs an erratic course in outlining the ancient rivalries that lead to the Archduke's assassination at Sarajevo, thence to the rape of Belgium, and the devastating battles of attrition launched at Verdun and the Marne. Vignettes at the Czarist court are fascinating, and one oddly heartwarming sequence (marred by a fake shot of a meter clocking up a fare) shows the famed 600 vintage Paris taxis rattling off to the front as troop transports...
WORLD WAR I (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). The battle of Verdun, the bloodiest of them all: 1,250,000 French and German casualties...
...first colonel, who showed me the gift and art of command," says Charles de Gaulle in his memoirs, and he sorrowed in 1945 when Marshal Henri Pétain, hero of Verdun, was found guilty of treason for his chieftaincy of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime. De Gaulle commuted the old man's death sentence to life imprisonment. Now, 13 years after Pétain's death and burial on the Ile d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, the French press is alive with rumors that De Gaulle may accede to Pétain...