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...Smithsonian Institution today said it would delete controversial portions of a plannedexhibit featuring the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, in a bow to pressure from outraged WWII veterans groups and their supporters in Congress. "We made an error," said Smithsonian Secretary Michael Heyman. The 100,000 square-foot exhibit revised downward the official estimate of the number of American lives saved by the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to 63,000, from several hundred thousand. In addition, it focused on pictures and narrative about the Japanese who suffered and died. Rep. Peter...
...entree, naturally, is Reardon's portrait of Julia Child, the six foot tall throaty-voiced diva who brought bouillabaise to thousands of living rooms. Julia--who in college wanted to be either a novelist or a professional basketball player and liked to perform tom-tom dances, who sought during WWII to be trained as a spy and was eventually posted to Ceylon, who finally turned to cooking--Julia dominates the book...
Deming is a statistician and educator, an expert on developing quality control techniques. He advised Allied production during WWII, and currently advises research in Greece, India, Japan and Germany...
Approximately 40 percent of Harvard men in the Class of '43 served in WWII, according to estimates of several graduates interviewed. Almost all men volunteered to fight in the war and there were practically no draftees, according to Ramer B. Holtan...
Another popular sign read "Do repeat Britain's WWII Churchill folly. Re-elect George Bush...