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From the prisoner's dock came a groan. Chack had slumped to the floor. Attendants carried him to a chair. Again he whispered: "I confess my error. . . . Americans have come to comfort me in my cell. . . . Now I understand America in her humane aspect . . . her aspirations not to become the greatest but the best. . . . That is what I would write...
...stay here and give them air as long as the guns are going." They closed the door on his compartment to save the rest of the ship from being flooded. Scott stayed and supplied air to clear the gun barrels until he was drowned in his cell...
...police headquarters Otto Wilson first politely denied, then politely confessed his crimes. In his cell, red-eyed, unsteady, but calm, he kept his black hair neatly combed. It was impossible to guess what he was thinking. Outside, his first victim's husband cried to police: "Leave me alone with that guy for five minutes and I'll save the state a lot of money...
...clock, one night in 1919, a messenger came to the jail where Karolyi had imprisoned Communist Bela Kun. In his cell, Kun was informed that Karolyi had quit, that Kun was free to set up a soviet republic in Hungary. Said Bela Kun later: "All night I could not get it out of my head-es ging zu glatt, es ging zu glatt-it went too smoothly." The 133-day Red Terror that followed gave Hungarians a psychic shock which laid them wide open to the blandishments of Germany...
...three-foot-long projectile was described by the Army last week. It is the M-12, a bazooka-like rocket launcher consisting of a factory-loaded plastic tube and tripod, weighing 35 Ibs. in all. A one-shot piece designed for close-range use, it is fired by dry-cell batteries, is replaced forthwith by a new barrel; the empty goes to the rear for a new loading. By a wire hookup, several M-12s can be fired at once by the same gunner...