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...Chinese popped up on either side of him. He shot the first through the head, pivoted, firing from the hip, and shot the second through the chest. He leaped down into the trench, raced along it, firing as he ran. Five more Communists fell. He threw his grenade into a bunker. Two more enemy soldiers burst out of the smoke. He killed them. He ran back down the hill with bullets kicking the snowy turf around him, got more ammunition, gathered an attacking party and led it up the slope...
...Bluff in the Bastion. Like a good poker player, the Countess Skarbek could play it close to the chest or stake all on a bluff. In 1944, wanted dead or alive by the Germans, she walked boldly into a Nazi prison camp ahead of the American advance, and demanded the release of three Allied officers sentenced to be shot. ''You have three important prisoners here," she told a sergeant major. "If you shoot them, I will see to it that you yourself are shot when the Americans reach here." The authority in her words and manner...
...addressed her. Then the night porter heard her scream: "Get him off me!" The porter and two other men rushed up, but too late. There on the floor at the foot of the stairs lay Christine Skarbek, heroine, a wooden-handled knife thrust in her chest...
...Liberal Party. The police dragged him along with them. Minutes later, Luna crawled weakly to the house of a fellow Protestant. "Pray for me," he gasped, "give me water." The police, said Luna, had taken him a little distance down the road, and stabbed him in the chest. Shortly afterward, Presbyterian Luna died...
...while the President was getting this off his chest, Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer penned a letter to a House maritime subcommittee. Sawyer accused Comptroller General Warren of making "silly and untrue" statements. Wrote Sawyer: Warren simply wanted to create "a public impression that the Comptroller General, a knight in white armor, is defending the taxpayers from some nefarious plot to which I and the Maritime Board are parties ... If a private citizen makes a bad contract, he is not allowed three years later to say that he ... will not go through with it. The same should apply to the Government...