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The special train snaked down the eastern slopes of the green Sierra, its engine backing slowly around the hairpin curves and through the snowsheds. It stopped briefly at Truckee, rolled on across the Nevada line to Reno, on to the Southern Pacific division point at Sparks. As darkness fell, the...
Treachery at Dawn. It lasted for 40 hours. It ended in the way the Russians always knew they could end it: by treachery. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky assured French officials-who made some of the most strenuous protests-of safe conduct for the Germans. Out of the darkness of their rooms...
"It's a Miracle." That night, under a starlit sky, the crowds shuffled nervously about the gate of Maria's house. She appeared to them on her balcony. She wanted to die, she said, in the presence of the faithful. Somewhat later, the tinkle of a little silver...
Along China's turgid riverbanks gongs were ringing. Their summons brought villagers running through the wet darkness, crying: "Chiu ming! Chiu ming!" (Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the...
End of a Chat. Here, for a few remarkable hours, the hunger of Berlin and the fears of the world seem as remote as the banished darkness. The divided world unites in the extravagant exchange of buffet-and-cocktail banalities-perhaps the only true international language. Bright Scottish kilts swish...