"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."

- Last words of Gen. John Sedgwick, spoken as he looked out over the parapet at enemy lines during the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864

"And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam."

- NEWSWEEK, predicting popular holidays for the late 1960s

"The ANC [African National Congress] is a typical terrorist organization. Anyone who thinks it is going to run the government in South Africa is living in cloudcuckoo land."