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...words. Many, on the other hand, noted the black band on the sleeve of the general's always impeccable uniform. It represented his only son, Bernard, killed in action in Indo-China just 15 weeks before. Close friends felt that General De Lattre never fully recovered from the shock of that loss, but to one he wrote soon afterward: "My pride is greater than my sorrow. You should send me compliments, not condolences...
Office? Upon arrival, Teply was taken to the courtyard, where he saw a body sprawled out under a blanket. A security agent pulled back the cover, and Teply, with a shock, recognized the pajama-clad corpse of Dr. Masaryk. "I ordered one of the policemen to open the pajamas, and noticed all over the body traces of blows and scratches that appeared to be marks of violence. I saw in the nape of the neck the mark of a wound, probably made by a projectile of 7.65-mm. caliber. I thought: 'This is infamous, a bestial assassination...
Stripped Shelves. The year of industrial growth began in fear and foreboding. In January, the U.S. still quivered from the shock of the Red Chinese intervention in Korea and the U.N. retreat. Consumers, fearful that war production would wipe out civilian goods, started a great wave of panic buying. Department stores, whose business normally skids after Christmas, found sales skyrocketing-and prices right along with them. To try to stop the rise, Price Boss Mike Di Salle put ceilings on all prices. The effect was to reward the chiselers who had already jacked up their prices and punish those...
...Good, Good, Good!" As soon as the reversal arrived at the State Department, Deputy Under Secretary for Administration Carl Humelsine called Service to his office, and fired him. Service, now 42, called the decision a "surprise, a shock and an injustice-I am not now and never have been disloyal to the United States." Joe McCarthy, who called Service "proSoviet" nearly two years ago, and who kept the case alive, heard the news in Los Angeles, and exclaimed: "Good, good, good...
Wilder's "The Long Christmas Dinner" is a mighty spooky play, and comes as a shock after the frothiness and gossamer of the one preceding it. While it is dedicated to the simple theory that the ups and downs of human existence are pretty small matters after all, it is hard to view death with Wilder's objectivity. Three generations of a family are born in the play, have their Christmas dinners on stage, and die by walking through a door covered with black crepe paper. These deaths mount up after a while...