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...earmarks of genuine revolt, checked sternly and bloodily by Soviet military might and trigger-quick Red German police, but not by any means extinguished. It seemed spontaneous and uncoordinated, but tailored to a strikingly universal pattern that showed that the old techniques and militance of German social democracy had not been crushed by eight years of Red oppression...
...finest officer in the Army.' During two weeks' maneuvers I heard several so lauded. The one officer who probably was praised more highly than any other during the maneuvers was Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, 50-year-old Texan, a red-faced, trigger-brained officer who was made a brigadier general a day or two after the maneuvers had ended . . . Well-informed Army men predict that Eisenhower will be a major general within six months...
Only one other event in Atlanta had a larger turnout (6,000) that night: a horse opera featuring Hollywood Cowboy Roy Rogers and Trigger (in person), with Atlanta merchants dealing out the tickets...
During the demonstration in Germany, the Decca Navigator made a strong impression on U.S. pilots who fly the Berlin Corridor, where trigger-happy Russians are apt to fire on straying airplanes. Rivals of Decca point out that it uses long-wave radio waves and is therefore apt to be bothered by static. Decca replies that special static-proof antennas and similar devices have practically licked the static problem...
...from the new French fort at Tamanrasset. Grilled by his captors, he prayed in silence, made no resistance, and said only: "Baghi n'mout-This is the hour of my death." Shortly after, his chief captor put a carbine muzzle against Foucauld's temple and pulled the trigger. Charles de Foucauld had made his last stand for God and France...