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...drivers stepped on the gas, tore into the British sector. Walter Waaske, driver of one bus, told what happened next: "All of a sudden a policeman turned his pistol toward my bus and shot. The bullet hit the windshield, and I could not see through it. I drove as fast as possible toward Potsdamer Strasse. Two more bullets hit the bus. One went through the coat of an officer sitting behind me." One of the passengers was 13-year-old Kristin Norstad, daughter of Lieut. General Norstad, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe. She called the incident...
Last week the Chinese Communist leaders were reacting like all Communist leaders who get frightened. From Canton in the south up through Shanghai and Tientsin in the north, Red China echoed to the crack of the executioner's bullet. It was the widest and crudest Communist purge the world had seen since Stalin's war against Russia's middle-class peasants 20 years...
...press of other business, Razmara had almost forgotten the ceremony and was hurrying in order not to be late. As he stepped briskly into the courtyard, a bearded young Moslem fanatic named Khalil Tahmassebi slid out of a crowd, got behind the Premier, opened fire. The first pistol bullet, which struck the back of Ali Razmara's head, was enough to cause instant death. Two other bullets hit him in the neck and chest. The fourth shot wounded a policeman who was trying to grapple with the assassin.* Police said that Tahmassebi and three accomplices were trying to commit...
...south, French soldiers crossed neck-deep streams under sniper fire. They put their dead and wounded in a dugout canoe and went forward. From the river, Ensign Lecorche led his LCMs and LCVPs cautiously into the jungle by way of a narrow stream. A sniper's bullet hit Lecorche's second in command, and when Communist machine guns and automatic rifles opened up from both sides, Lecorche's tanned, half-naked young French sailors answered with .so-caliber machine-gun fire, blew the Communists out of the trees and mud emplacements...
...Louis Police Laboratory, which he now heads, was founded as the result of Dr. Gradwohl's early determination to make responsible Americans conscious of the importance of forensic medicine. Few whodunit fans would tolerate a corpse unless the concentration of poison, time of death, incident angle of bullet, knife or blunt instrument and other relevant factors had been measured and determined by precise scientific methods. Yet in real life, there is seldom such thoroughness...