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That was in June 1944, at the height of World War II. This week in Chicago, the rusting, bullet-riddled submarine, the U-505, will be hauled to her final snug harbor at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, as a memorial to all the U.S. seamen who lost their lives at sea in World Wars I and II, and as a personal tribute to Rear Admiral Dan Gallery, the lean and leathery wartime skipper of the Guadalcanal...
Last week the Hords got back to their cabin for the summer. When Judy Hord pulled back the curtains in the darkened living room, she and her husband were dismayed to see the picture window shattered, bullet holes on the wall and bullet scars across the ceiling. Unfriendly hunters had used their house for target prac tice. Captain Herd's anger grew to fury. He sent his wife off to get the sheriff, stormed through the house cutting the cords that triggered the cyanide bombs. When he got to the pantry, the furious, forgetful captain yanked open the door...
...almost suicide to try to get it here, as we are swept by machine-gun fire and a constant artillery barrage is upon us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." He was hit by a bullet in the shoulder and by a shell fragment in the knee; most of his clothes were torn off; but clad chiefly in helmet and pistol belt, he held...
Terrorist killings followed. The body of Alfredo Abularach Sabagg, a salesman who had been inexplicably arrested and jailed a few days before, was returned to his family with the curt explanation: "Suicide." A post-mortem showed one arm broken, the sole of one foot burned, general bruises, and a bullet hole in the back of his head. Secretary of State Dulles spoke out bluntly against this "reign of terror" in a press conference. President Eisenhower added the weight of his disapproval and deep regret...
...interminably." It does not stop until the Devil ("stylishly dressed in tails that hung on [his] hairy top vertebra as on a rusty nail") opens the grille and leads the lovers into a hellish hotel bedroom. Wine is brought them by a very "stern, very grave" waiter with a bullet hole in his temple: he is the lady's husband, who has just committed suicide. "I hope you've been comfortable," says the Devil, when the anguished lovers scuttle back to the elevator. "Hell is nothing to complain of ... We've had everything modernized...