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With a crowbar, police wrenched at the hole, unexpectedly setting off a mechanism which slid back some steps and opened a hidden door. Inside the underground room, they found an oldtime Greek Communist named Nicholas Vavoudis dying from the bullet he had fired into his mouth. Near him was a radio receiver and sender, and more records showing how the underground got its orders from Bucharest, dispatched in return reports on politics and troop dispositions...
...killed by terrorists in 1948. Fatemi had just reached the climax, declaring: "What is life worth, compared with such high objectives?" when a shaven-headed 15-year-old boy in the audience reached inside his coat and drew out a U.S.-made .45. With both hands, he fired a bullet into Fatemi's belly, only three yards away...
Next day the Wing Sang arrived at Formosa, with a few shell holes in her hull, and two casualties-a Chinese crewman who had been wounded in the knee by a pirate bullet, and the ten-year-old reader of Treasure Island, who had become violently sick at his stomach from seeing the real thing. The Wing Sang's agents, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., promised to repay the passengers who had chipped in ransom money. British, U.S. and Chinese Nationalist ships kept a lookout for a handsome buccaneer, wearing brown leather gloves and a gold wristwatch, who made short...
...youngster who had been shot in the holdup had come out of surgery. "The kid was lucky," the surgeon said. "An inch or two either way, and the bullet would have severed the aorta or portal vein or the hepatic artery. As it is, he'll live...
...opening shot of a bullet-pocked adobe wall characterizes this "biography" of Emiliano Zapata, Mexico's peasant revolutionary. Twentieth Century Fox concentrated on the bloodshed and violence of Zapata's rebellion, and although Viva Zapata has captured the force of this brutality, it stops right there...