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...small revolver held up the sleeve by rubber bands; a stiletto with a nine-inch blade. Other useful weapons : a hammer, cheese-cutters (wires with wooden handles, handy for garroting) ; a handkerchief with a fistful of sand in it. Besides blankets, extra socks, binoculars, rifles, burnt cork to blacken the face, etc., an important part of the equipment is 25 to 30 yards of fishline. This has many uses: to tie up an enemy, to set off a booby trap. The booby trap is a guerrilla's stock in trade. "You can exercise your schoolboy malice and ingenuity," suggests...
This is the paradox which has nurtured the hate racket. But it is based on the assumption that the only way to make American democracy worth fighting for is to blacken the way of life of every nation which threatens democracy. This assumption is false. The American people do not have to be doped with the adrenaline of hate journalism. All they need is the facts: the facts about the strength of their own forces, about the actual danger which is facing them. If the newspapers and magazines of the country would spend less effort on giving them unnecessary excuses...
...will blacken the sky with planes...
...three years ago in Pomona, Calif., a Czecho-Slovak butcher named William Dubil lugged a bottom round of beef from his refrigerator, found that someone had stored it too near the freezing coils. It was granite-hard. Sure that the piece was spoiled, would blacken as it thawed, rueful Dubil put it on a slicing machine, turned out a stack of paper-thin slices. He put them in the display refrigerator just to see what would happen...
What happened started a new business. To Butcher Dubil's surprise the slices did not blacken, but again became a toothsome red. Customers bought them and to his amazement they came back next day for more. William Dubil hard-froze more meat, thawed his thin slices gradually in the display case, but still wondered why they were so tender...