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...from several side streets, the attacking columns began pouring point-blank fire-from tanks, cannons, machine guns and rifles-at the protective walls. Back came a murderous counterfire, everything Diem's defenders had left. First one Diem tank caught fire and exploded in a tower of smoke and flame. Then another was knocked out of action. Two of the rebels' tanks were also destroyed...
...hangs in the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, Bacon has never gone to see it. The gum-baring shriek that gapes out of so many of his portraits is copied from a still from Sergei Eisenstein's film of 1925, The Battleship Potemkin, in which a horrified nurse is shot point-blank through her pince-nez. Why these subjects? "They haunt me," Bacon replies...
Within ten minutes, five guardsmen were fatally wounded. "We had no chance of fighting back," said one of the survivors. "They shot at us at point-blank range, without mercy." The raiders tossed their five victims off the moving train, stopped it long enough to daub F.A.L.N. slogans on the coaches, then backtracked a single coach to a rendezvous point. From there, they escaped in waiting cars...
...longtime friend of Premier ben Bella, who put aside old hatreds to become the prime architect of Algeria's post-revolutionary cooperation with France, winning himself the high respect of Western diplomats; of a head wound received 24 days earlier when an insane Moslem shot him at point-blank range; in Algiers...
This time McNamara did not call the FBI, but summoned his Air Force inspector general, burly, crew-cut Lieut. General W. H. ("Butch" I Blanchard. The general swept right into the leak-seeking game by calling Reporter Fryklund to his office and asking him point-blank who gave him the memo. Fryklund stood firm upon his obligation to protect his sources, so Blanchard unleashed his plainclothes investigators...