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What happened early that morning of March 10, 1948 in the third-floor, right-wing apartment of the Foreign Ministry in Prague? Afterward, when the body lay in the morgue, the new Red regime made its announcement: Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk was so depressed by letters from British and U.S. friends denouncing him for collaborating with the Communists that he climbed through the small window of his bathroom and plunged 60 feet to a stone-flagged courtyard...
That, said witness Teitelbaum, seems to have been the wrong answer. Not long afterward, he said, he learned that his case was scheduled for criminal prosecution...
After the first report, the legend of the Snowmen was unheard of for nearly 16 years. Then another roving Englishman found the tracks of a barefooted "man," high in the valley of the upper Salween, the "Black River of Tibet." Soon afterward another high-altitude Himalayan traveler came across a similar line of tracks. He persuaded his sulky porters to follow them in the direction the toes pointed. Even the terrified Tibetans felt fairly safe: they knew that if a man followed an Abominable Snowman's tracks with the toes pointing forward, he was only going where the Snowman...
...oxygen as he passed 16,000 ft., watched his altimeter going "round and round like the hands of a crazy clock." After 15 minutes it registered 32,000 ft. The fog turned thin and milky, letting a little sunlight filter through. Suddenly there was a blinding flash. Said Comte afterward: "The whole cloud lit up, with me inside it. I felt lightning hit the top of my head a sharp blow and run through my hands into the control column. The plane continued flying steady, but I was scared...
...fact was that astonished young (28) Concertmaster Alfred Bruening caught a flying baton in the face. The mystery: Did the baton just slip out of Halasz's hand, as Halasz claimed, or did he hurl it, straight and true as a javelin, as the outraged concertmaster afterward charged...