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...almost inevitable from the way he asked for the assignment. In leftist Guatemala, his candid reporting (including his coverage of the 1949 revolution) won him many friends, but made enemies too. During the 1950 elections, he was followed constantly, and his camera was stolen from his car. Shortly afterward, when he was out of the country, the car itself was stolen. Later it was found -overturned, battered and partially burned. When we phoned him from New York because of some concern over his personal safety, MaCoy said laconically: "Things are pretty dull here, no stories breaking. When are you sending...
...sleeve of the general's always impeccable uniform. It represented his only son, Bernard, killed in action in Indo-China just 15 weeks before. Close friends felt that General De Lattre never fully recovered from the shock of that loss, but to one he wrote soon afterward: "My pride is greater than my sorrow. You should send me compliments, not condolences...
...prince next popped up in 1940 wearing the uniform of De Gaulle's Free French air force. Soon afterward he went to Argentina, where he teamed with old friend Fritz Mandl, onetime Austrian munitions-maker who had also bet on the wrong fascist. Mandl, now doing business with Peron, put Starhemberg up in style, but the prince yearned for his own acres...
...Vulgar Criminal. Soon afterward, his leg irons resting comfortably against the grill of his cell, Meurant was enjoying a game of belote with two guards. Suddenly he whipped out the revolver. "One move," he said pleasantly, "and I'll burn you." While Meurant brandished his weapon, his cellmate, Murderer Michel Courtin, got the keys and unlocked the door. Meurant rounded up two more guards, locked them in the cell with the others, rummaged through the clothes locker for his good suit, and then calmly sat down to finish a letter. "I am escaping only to prove my innocence...
...point, the facts are undisputed: a bandit has stalked a traveling samurai and his wife through the forest, decoyed the husband, trussed him up and raped the wife in his presence. Coming on the scene afterward, the woodcutter has found the samurai dead, his goods stolen...