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...while last week, the long-awaited popular revolt seemed to be rising in Argentina. Opposition groups, disgusted with the militarists led by Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, were getting together under the name of Comando Unico (Single Command). Their aim: to throw out all the barrack-room statesmen, set up a civilian government pledged to hold elections...
...talk back. If the back talk rings false, Shwe Waing calls for repetition until it sounds right to a Burmese ear. He can explain new words in terms of those already learned. The boys make careful notes of all sound effects in a phonetic alphabet, study them aloud in barrack dormitories, on the street, at meals. Bit by bit, somewhat as Burmese children do, but with the best of technical help, these fighting men master spoken Burmese. Later they can study the alphabet, learn to read...
...know the rest of the country pretty well in any army outfit. I'll never forget my first Texans. They were a militant minority in our barrack, and made themselves felt by playing six radios at once (each with a different hillbilly band) and inaugurating a series of concerts consisting of ten to twelve voices and three gee-tars on "Deep is the Heart of Texas." Complete with the handclaps...
...when he was 17, he entered the guttural, drill-sharp barrack routine of the German Imperial Army. Then came the four grey years of World War I. After that Germany was a shambles of street fighting, depression, inflation. For flat-nosed, flabby-faced Theodor Eicke, the world was horrible; the only meaning in it was to claw his way over the others and reach the top of the muck heap...
...prepared for men who take opiates to stop diarrhea, barbiturates to reduce blood pressure, digitalis to correct an abnormal heart, etc. Concealment may succeed for years. An epileptic stayed in the regular army for years and became a technical sergeant, because his fits always came at night and his barrack-mates helped him conceal them. Eventually he had an attack during night field exercises, and army doctors retired...