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Four hours later, Dr. Shultz found Sara lying on a blanket on a table in a log cabin. She was conscious. He gave her a sedative and scrubbed up while his instruments boiled on the wood stove. Two men held gas lanterns and two flashlights while he operated. It was a bad fracture: many pieces of bone, including a large part of the eye socket, were pressed in on the brain...
...Water Jag. The shortest interrogation ran three hours, several lasted a grueling 15. Officially, prisoners slept between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., but Stypulkowski was hauled out of bed 69 nights out of 70. Sleep at any time was a virtual miracle. A lumpy mattress and a single blanket left him aching and cold. By prison rules, hands had to be kept outside the blanket, and a naked light bulb was always trained on his head. Any attempt to tuck in frozen fingers or face away from the light brought a barked reprimand from the guard at the peephole...
...Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry had been trying for almost a year to get some such law passed, but never before had they had so receptive an audience. MacArthur's testimony was still fresh in every Senator's mind. The Administration's objections had been that blanket restrictions would interfere with U.S. sources of strategic materials, hamper allied unity, produce such odd results as keeping West Germany from buying potatoes in East Germany. Now, the Senate had its dander...
...muddy foxhole in central Korea crouched battlewise Colonel William Harris, commander of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. The colonel was unshaven and bone tired; his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep. A sodden G.I. blanket around his shoulders inadequately shielded him from the pouring rain. "This," said the colonel, "is the worst...
...amendment to keep the deferment test from being mandatory on local boards. The clause will merely say that local boards do not have to defer on the basis of grades made on the test; it will not affect the other sections of the recent presidential order which gave blanket deferment to all graduate students in all fields and to students who maintained a certain standing in their class...