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From the jail came a single shot. From the ridge rang a deafening volley. From everywhere all hell broke loose in the Friendly City...
...Roosevelt which sparked the Manhattan Project. There are the quick-eyed Lise Meitner, the steely Compton, the vivid Fermi, the deceptively rustic Bush, their faces subtly haggard in remembrance of the moments they are reenacting; and there are the faces of Oppenheimer and Rabi, a few minutes before all hell breaks loose in the New Mexican desert, with the shaky exchange-Oppenheimer: "This time, Rob the stakes are really high." Rabi:"It's going to work all right, Robert, and I'm sure we won't be sorry for it." There is Harvard's Conant, stating...
...dusty, eight-year-old boy looked on when the great General William Tecumseh ("War is hell") Sherman and three Navajo leaders signed the treaty. That warm spring day in 1868, the 7,000 Navajos promised to switch from marauding to sheepherding; in return, the U.S. pledged them a reservation, schools, and a teacher for every 30 children...
...Yugoslavs get word that the Italians are going to destroy anything, they will force their way across our lines and then we'll be in a hell of a spot. I've tried to explain to the Italians. But it's damn difficult to convince them...
...Mauser rifle with a sling made of heavy twine. He had on two overcoats and a north woods peaked wool cap. How long was he going to stand there? Until Gutierrez came out. He thought there would be a try that night. It was cold as hell, but even the rifleman's three assistants, armed with staves, looked determined...