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Each one drove a car hand-built from standard stock parts and revamped for racing, had spent uncounted hours and up to $7,000 on the finished product. Some drove souped-up Ford sedans with the tops chopped, i.e., lowered, others built bullet-shaped racers from aircraft tanks, called them "Lakesters" for the dry lakes they race on. The engines gleamed like platinum; for fuel some burned an explosive mixture of methyl alcohol and nitromethane. "Fuel?" snorted an oil-company observer. "It belongs in the class with dynamite...
...Koreans. The courage of the South Koreans was a different kind: to G.I.s it seemed not sacrificial, not fanatical, but resigned. One bearded old "Papa-san" of the Korean Service Corps "choo-gied" mortar ammunition up one hill, then caught a bullet in his chest as he was starting back down the trail for more. He lay by the mortar position, blood leaking from his chest, and passed shells to the shorthanded mortar crew as he died. Each time the tube fired, the old man muttered a Korean word, but the Americans on the mortar never knew what...
...with his platoon; but malaria finally laid him low. In the spring of 1945 he was back in action. He was wounded in the arm and leg by grenade fragments, in the face and in the hip by shrapnel, then in the face again by a sniper's bullet...
...under fire, one man was killed, and Deane and the other G.I.s crawled to the nearest house. Of the seven men already there, two were dead. One after the other, three more were killed as Communist fire poured in. Deane dashed out to get a jeep started, got a bullet in his hand, four in his thigh. When the Communists charged and captured the house, their first act was to shoot the wounded G.I.s who could not stand. Then the survivors were stripped, kicked, beaten and marched off. At each village, they were turned over to the civilians...
Premier Matyas Rakosi, a bullet-headed Bolshevik with a 35-year record of service to the party (including 15 years in jail) and a longtime intimate of Stalin, was demoted to membership of an eleven-man politburo and a three-man secretariat, modeled after the new Russian-type organization. Into his place as Premier stepped Imre Nagy, 57, a Moscow-trained Hungarian Communist of only slightly less experience. But the significant change was in policy, not in personnel. With a smiling Rakosi taking a back seat behind the rostrum, new Premier Nagy told a stunned Parliament of the changes that...