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The courtroom lights were dimmed for the first time since the trial started, and the defendants sat in semidarkness. Across a motion picture screen moved, in light and shadow, what veteran correspondents called the most terrible pictures of mass slaughter and torture they had ever seen. It was an endless...
He had saved up enough money by 1911 ($700) to realize a childhood desire: a trip around the world. With George A. (Why We Behave Like Human Beings) Dorsey he made the second steamboat trip in history up the Yangtze Gorges to the then inconspicuous city of Chungking. The Chinese...
(One little girl was staring far away, her eyes on the deep blue of the peaks. "The pink egg," she whispered. . . .)
Dietrich lived in a small, neat, almost undamaged house. He, his six-year-old sister Heidi and his mother had two rooms; the four others were occupied by a grey, staring-eyed woman of 40-odd with six children, one of whom, a boy of 16, had just returned from...
But Russia's Botvinnik promptly outmaneuvered Denker in 25 lightning-quick moves. All Russians played a wide-open game that left the orthodox Americans staring blankly at their boards. It was not only in politics that the Russians were good chess players.