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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposed to be early in May, but when British Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery took up his post as Eisenhower's deputy for ground forces that January, he immediately balked at the preliminary plans for a 25-mile-wide invasion front. He told Eisenhower, who already had strong misgivings of his own, that the front must be much broader, about 50 miles, so that the Allies could land at least five divisions, instead of the planned three. The planners said they did not have enough landing craft for such an expansion. Get them, said Montgomery. That was impossible...
...those who gave their lives. The rest of us didn't." Compared with Omaha, the landing at Utah was easy, but a mile or two inland Liska's unit began to take heavy casualties. The Germans had flooded a swath of fields nearly a mile wide. Liska and his men kept their sea-landing life jackets on for the first 24 hours, as they struggled through waist-high water. Says Liska: "We were just like sitting ducks for the Germans, sitting ducks in a pond." Human corpses became so familiar to Liska that by an odd flinch of his mind...
After accepting that, of course, you can sit back, smile, and watch with wide eyes. With all the glittering costumes and the rotating mirrored sets, however, the extravagance at times seems almost embarrassing. The book is just too silly, and quite a few of the songs ring flat in the contemporary ear. Among the notable exceptions to this are some familiar hummable-or perhaps more appropriately, toe-tapping-numbers, including "We're in the Money," Lullaby of Broadway," Shuffle Off to Buffalo," and the title song...
...long, narrow--just six feet wide--Custom Shop sports four bright red chairs and a cozy waiting room in the back. It seems like the typical strictly male barber shop at first glance. But among the last six issues of Sports illustrated on a table in the waiting room are a few issues of Cosmopolitan and Vogue...
...biological scientist, anymore than an engineer must be a pure mathematician and a theoretical physicist. On the other hand, it does not follow that a well-trained scientist cannot be a good physician. The practice of medicine, if nothing else, is pluralistic and can accommodate people with wide variety of skills, knowledge and understanding. There are limits to the science which needs to be known and understood to be a good physician, but these are not necessarily those that currently exist. The pre-medical and undergraduate medical curriculum should be re-evaluated in the light of the current realities...