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...prevent that, the U.S. was willing to speed up the procedure for using the Rio Treaty, and thus provide trigger-quick retaliation against anybody disturbing hemisphere peace...
...away from the humdrum of business, budgets and the family, to shiver with a ski patrol as "They Cheat Death in the Alps," sweat as a motorcycle daredevil shows "How to Ride Up a Wall," cheer for the Old Blue bullfighter in "Yale Man Versus Toro," and squeeze the trigger when "Grizzlies Spell Trouble." The biggest difference between the two: Argosy runs fiction, True aims at facts...
Spokesman for this trigger-happy little group is General Kurt von Manteuffel, an excellent soldier who led the Ardennes break-through in December, 1944. He has been spending a lot of time with Dr. Adenauer, who apparently asked for the advice of the Brotherhood on possible rearming. The reason advanced by the unemployed officers is simple: Germany needs an army to hold off the Russians. Some top Allied military men--Marshal Montgomery and General Tassigny among them--have given tacit approval to this theory...
...before he made this unusual choice, British Colonel John Wallis had shoved a .45 into his mouth and blown his brains out. As a barrister on the British commission investigating war crimes, he had helped hang German General von Kenelm; Wallis' overwhelming sense of guilt had pulled the trigger. So, in British Anthony West's first novel, The Vintage, Wallis is first seen on a mortuary slab. The rest of the book tells of his guilt-and conscience-plagued pilgrimage through the purgatory of which Cape Sable is a part...
...year-old freshman apparently pulled the trigger accidentally while adjusting his rifle strap, police said last night. According to conflicting reports of eyewitnesses, Zilahy picked up the rifle, a .22 calibre Winchester, and found the leather sling too tight. In either a sitting or kneeling position, he attempted to loosen the sling, they said. The gun discharged, and the bullet lodged in Zilahy's forehead...