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...winding road from Berchtesgaden surged Adolf Hitler's six-wheel staff car. At the bronze gates beneath the brooding Berghof, Hungary's Regent Nicholas Horthy climbed stiffly out, entered the rock, rode 300 feet straight up through granite to the aerie's hushed reception hall where the Führer waited. Russian soldiers plunging toward the Carpathians had made the summons urgent. Briefly, now, and harshly, Hitler outlined his demands: the time had come to "coordinate" Germany's eager little ally. Full military occupation would be necessary, and a more tractable government; henceforth, too, more Hungarian...
There was lunch with his wife, Donna Rachele, Son Vittorio, Son Bruno's widow and daughter. Then an hour of chess and strolling through the grounds, not too far from the Nazi Elite Guard or the air-raid shelter hewn from solid rock...
...Little Rock...
...hunts -the mountain wildernesses of the western U.S. On the snow-covered trail of the biggest cat on the North American continent, sometimes grown to nine or ten feet in length from gorging on deer, the hunter must make as much as 30 miles a day. Creeping along rock ledges, plunging through rough timber, always pressing to keep his dogs within sound, he often follows a trail for days before he makes the kill...
Mohl jumped squarely on the first enemy; Corporal Frank Passarelli and Private Tom Boaz tackled the second; Corporal George Ickes stood up and shot the third at point blank range; Private Paul Reynolds, from behind a big rock, chopped down the last three with deft bursts from his Browning automatic rifle. Passarelli and Boaz had knocked their man cold; Mohl subdued his with a pistol butt. Back at an American outpost they radioed headquarters: "Mission accomplished, patrol returning." Sole U.S. casualty: Lieut. Mohl. His Jap had bitten him on the hand...