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Meanwhile, the King's mother, Queen Helen, notified of events by telephone, sped from the royal family's summer home at Sinaia (northwest of Ploesti) to a rendezvous with her son. All through German-held country she clutched a small pistol, determined to shoot the first enemy soldier attempting to halt...
This division flanked Lyons. Its rapid advance was sped by Maquis scouts, who did most of the Americans' patrolling for them (at a base-pay rate of $2 a day). The Maquis did much of the fighting, too, when it was confined to skirmishes with Germans who had only light weapons, and they brought in stragglers as prisoners. The Americans cracked the toughest Nazi nuts, rounded up the growing bag of prisoners (55,000 on the southern France front by week's end), and pushed on to the next flag-decked, cheering village...
...design in 1911), Stanley began to tinker with tools at five. At ten he built a toy car which he drove around the streets of Berkeley, Calif.; at twelve he invented a miniature racing auto 19 inches long. Powered by a gas engine and guided by a cable, it sped around a circular course at 107 m.p.h. At 17, as head of his own company, Hiller Industries, Inc., Stanley was running a $100,000 midget racing auto business. He learned to fly when he was so small that he had to sit in his father's lap to reach...
...huge breach opened in the Nazi lines. A column sickled westward into the funnel's center, joined troops of Malinovsky's army. Kishinev, pogrom-haunted seat of Bessarabia, was stormed. Below the city the Russians closed a noose around 60,000 Germans. Then the Third Ukrainian sped down the coast. At week's end it stood deep within the sprawling, muddy Danube Delta, held the old Turkish fortress town of Ismail, swept into Galati, eastern anchor...
...clock, six automobiles whisked through the city of Vichy, sped northeastward, convoyed by German Army motorcycles. Among the passengers: Pétain, his wife, his personal physician...