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Even though Pisa and Florence were monuments of European culture they were astride a military line, and that line the Germans were bent on holding if they could. Through both cities the Arno flowed between masonry banks, making it a perfect tank trap and barrier to infantry. The Allies held the south bank, the Germans the north. So the war in Italy became a peculiar kind of delicate slugging match among the museums, with world-famous art in no man's land...
...clean life: he did not smoke, and did not like his womenfolk to smoke; he was a high Mason; he had married the girl he went to Sunday School with; he had been a World War I hero (an artillery captain, he saved his panicky battery from a German trap in the St. Mihiel fighting). He was a farm boy become county judge, with friends "in the sticks" to add to Pendergast's slick Kansas City machine...
...quiet waters of Ontario's Algonquin Park, where the beavers live protected lives, four Cree Indians, Dominion Fur Supervisor Hugh Conn and his wife were busily trapping beavers. They would send the live animals north to the even quieter waters of the Kesagami Beaver and Fur Preserve. There only the red man may trap. Explained Supervisor Conn: "Doles [do not] solve the [Indian] economic problem. . . . They have lived by the hunt for centuries. The obvious answer ... is to restore fur bearers...
General Hatazo Adachi was in a trap. Since General MacArthur's leapfrog landings along the New Guinea coast at Aitape and Hollandia last April 22, his Eighteenth Army had been hemmed between the sea to the north, Australians to the east, mountains to the south and Americans to the west. Adachi had seen his force dwindle from 60,000 to 45,000 (round numbers estimated at General MacArthur's headquarters), as a result of daily bombings and disease hastened by hunger...
...withdrawal inland when a bomb or shell scored a direct hit on their hole. A souvenir-hunting Corpsman was removing the bayonet from one Jap's scabbard. A colonel, whose regimental command post was near by, shouted: "You'll get yourself mixed up with a booby trap. Now goddam it, leave him alone...