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...produced, Robertson and the man headed toward the wrecked bridge across the Elbe and shouted that they were friends. On the eastern bank, several uniformed men approached the bomb-shattered bridge. Robertson and the Russian began scrambling across the river, clawing their way from girder to bent girder. As they neared the far shore, one of the Russians finally crawled out on the bridge to meet them...
...Murabitun radio station and party headquarters also took a pounding: floors collapsed, pillars buckled, and steel reinforcing rods bent into bizarre shapes. Later, Amal militiamen could be seen standing guard outside the gutted building. Emblazoned on a concrete slab at the entrance was a Murabitun slogan: WHAT IS TAKEN BY FORCE IS REGAINED ONLY BY FORCE...
...Rocky Marciano's home town. They gave him a job with their construction company and a place to dream on the side. "Rocky and I grew up five miles apart. He was going to go in with us on the gym," says Goody, whose own nose is unmistakably bent. "I thought of him when Marvin was bleeding, and it looked like they might stop it, and they didn't. I knew the knockout was coming then. He fought like Rocky this time...
...market, pocketing American loans and hatching so many wartime scams that within five months of being installed at a rate of four to $1, the gold yuan had plunged to a rate of 1 million to $1. He further repeats the familiar charge that in 1934 the Generalissimo, hell-bent on settling scores with the Chinese Communists instead of fighting the Japanese enemy, followed the advice of a Nazi strategist, creating a scorched-earth policy and a famine that left a million Chinese dead...
...means maneuvering behind your opponents and "hammering'em." It happened to Yeager over France, when he was flying his P-51 Mustang and three German fighters jumped him. He parachuted, evaded capture with the help of the underground, and not only made it to England but got the rules bent to allow him back into...