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Most of the killers are foredoomed by their past and have the apathy of the doomed. But once in a while the bravado of a political prisoner creates drama. From Rome, TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi reported one such drama: Into the courtroom of Rome's old uni versity, where students once faced examiners, strode Peter Koch (an assistant to Rome's chief of police Pietro Caruso), handcuffed but smiling. He took his place behind the wooden rail of the prisoner's dock. His tall figure with its small, cruel head was momentarily silhouetted against the light...
Dead Men Make No Reports. Several factors had ordained secrecy about the Kamikaze attacks. At first they were made by only one or two planes at a time; they might have been merely a show of fatal bravado by individual Jap airmen. Obviously no suicide pilot ever returned to report. The Jap command had no way of knowing how the attacks turned out, and the Navy took pains not to tell...
...Prime Minister grinned at this lame bravado. Mr. King was entitled to a little self-satisfaction. His announcement had come just one day after Ontario had set June 11 as the date of its provincial election. The Pro-Cons are admittedly strong in Ontario; by making the two elections simultaneous, foxy Prime Minister King seemed to have blitzed their hopes that a Pro-Con triumph in Ontario would bolster the party's subsequent Federal balloting. The Toronto Globe & Mail called it "low political cunning." There was no denying the cunning...
Last week a stormy Chamber of Deputies wanted to know when the U.S. would get out. Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha soothed its chafed nationalism with a sweeping challenge : "Foreign airfields must be delivered to us or they must not exist in Egypt." Behind his bravado was the Premier's knowledge that a joint Anglo-Egyptian company was in the making to operate Egypt's airfields after the war. With well-timed tact the British Government had sent King Farouk his handsomest birthday gift: a twin-engined, air-conditioned cabin plane from the Royal Air Force...
...Partisans could never figure out Major Randolph Churchill-his fits, bravado and geniality. They generally defined him as "the incredible Englishman." Randolph was constantly hunting up his batman. "Salmon! Where is Salmon? Salmon, I say, you must be with me!" Then he would praise Salmon in public, whereupon Salmon would draw himself up: "Sir, I don't like to be made fun of!" During the rest pauses, super-active Randolph would think up various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed...