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...dinner; the troops heard him urging his cook to hurry with a duck curry. The government men called on the rebel to surrender. Gyi answered with a blast from a U.S. carbine. When the gun battle was over, the Karen chief lay dying with bullets in his head and chest. "A drop of water," he begged of his captors. "There's no water here, sir," replied a government officer politely. A few minutes later, Gyi, London-educated lawyer and once the leader of 15,000 troops, was dead...
...despite his spindle-thin appearance has a golf handicap of 6) drove to Parliament. Created lieutenant general in the Belgian army by his father, he wore a bright new olive-drab uniform with the wide purple Grand cordon de I'ordre de Léopold across his chest. The thousands of cheering people and his heavy guard of honor plainly embarrassed him. Entering the Chamber of Representatives, he had difficulty managing his sword in its gold scabbard, and fumbled the salutes...
Craig used to drive around the front lines in a mud-spattered jeep, toting a carbine (he is an even better shot than most marines). Some marines claim that Eddie Craig has steel wool instead of hair on his chest and a 40-mm. gun barrel for a backbone. But he is no military tyrant. Like many another Marine Corps officer, Craig believes that the welfare of enlisted men comes first. On Bougainville (which rhymes, in marine parlance, with Hoganville), officers slept in foxholes if the men slept in foxholes, ate whatever rations the men ate. On postwar Guam, although...
Fast Rise. He first met Kelley Anderson five years ago when Anderson, raising money for Boston's Community Chest fund, hit him for a contribution. Smith was impressed by Kelley Anderson's background, and two years later Anderson joined New England as a director. Anderson, who first learned finance from his farmer-banker father, worked his way through college, then became an errand boy in an engineering firm because "there wasn't much choice about jobs...
...Bigart, got back to write about it. The others, Ray Richards of Hearst's International News Service and Corporal Ernie Peeler of Stars and Stripes, were killed as they ran for a jeep when the battalion was cut off. Richards was shot through the head, Peeler through the chest. They were the first newsmen to die in the Korean...