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...Down. Shortly after sunrise on May 14, the Union Jack flapped down from its staff over Government House, on Jerusalem's Hill of Evil Counsel. Without farewells from Jew or Arab, the British Governor General, tired-looking General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, drove to the airport in his bullet-proof Daimler. He flew to Haifa in an R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus in the anchorage. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy (". . . His father...
Newsman George Polk, whose bullet-pierced body was found floating in Salonika Bay, Greece, Sunday, would have been a Nieman Fellow here this fall...
...central development of the novel. Ironically, it is the princess who has given him a taste for the culture that revolution would destroy. In the end, he sees the princess give herself to his best anarchist friend. Overwhelmed by the ironies that smother him, Hyacinth commits suicide with the bullet that was meant for the duke...
...Jokiel said no. "Well," said the voice, "if she doesn't pass everyone in math tomorrow, she'll soon be pushing up daisies." Mrs. Jokiel, a teacher herself, thought the call was probably a joke. But a few minutes later, gunfire echoed through the quiet Brooklyn street. Bullets zinged through windows, smacked into walls. When the police arrived, they counted 24 bullet holes in the Jokiel house. Neighbors said the shots had come from a darkened car cruising slowly past the house...
...weeks ago 800 guerrillas attacked. Kalavryta's garrison-35 gendarmes and 200 newly mobilized national guards-resisted stoutly at first, but when ammunition ran short the gendarmes staged a sortie and got away. The guards' commander stood his ground, finally ended his life with his last bullet. Sixty-two defenders had been killed or wounded. The others surrendered and disappeared...