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...final camp, Chan used his last article of wealth, a Parker pen set, to bribe his way into the prison hospital. On a stormy night he slipped out a window, climbed the fence, and raced between the guard towers. Hopping a freight train bound for Canton, Chan hid out with friends who gave him food and civilian clothes. From September 1961 until he made it across the border, Chan was constantly on the move, sometimes staying with a sympathetic cop of the PSB, more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver...
...enough, cluster upon them like cattle flies. But when she says, "I know a lot of men who aren't half the man you are, even though their skin is the same color as mine"; and when he feels "inferior to white women only as long as they hid underneath their dresses"; it is clear that the level of communication will be mainly horizontal. Love is a skin game to The Lonely Conqueror, and the game is only skin deep...
...Frankfurt Garden of Paradise" or the "Master of the Hours of Rohan." The masters reported their share of cruelties and martyrdoms: but to a much larger extent, the exhibition reflects the courtly dolce vita of an age that, out of fear of the future, idealized the past and hid the present behind a facade of elegance. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga summed up the period best when he said, "It bore the mixed smell of blood and roses...
Died. Ernst Buchner, 70, longtime director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections who. in anticipation of World War II, removed one of the world's finest art collections from Munich's Alte Pinakothek, safely hid the more than 1,000 masterpieces in salt mines, and after the war campaigned to rebuild the bombed-out gallery where in 1957 the collection again went on view; of a heart attack; in Munich...
Glory to the heroic liberating act of the 30th of May." Only one of the four "liberators"' was present for the ceremony: the other three triggermen all died in the aftermath at the hands of Trujillo's troops. The survivor, Council Member Antonio Imbert, 41, hid for six months in a friend's shuttered room, is still a presumed target for Trujillo revenge. Tommy gun-toting guards protect his home round-the-clock; he wears a .45 Colt at all times and keeps an M-1 rifle within easy reach...