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Hungry Crows. Day after day, Sriramulu lay on a charpoy (stringed cot) on the veranda of his bungalow in Madras, where the raucous cries of hungry crows mingle with the whine of pariah dogs and the screech of ancient street cars. While Sriramulu lost weight, Andhra lobbyists tried to convince Nehru. As Gandhi's dis ciple, Nehru knows the political value of a prolonged fast, but unlike the British, who eventually quavered under Gandhi's persistence, Nehru stood firm. On Sriramulu's 52nd day, Nehru warned: "This method of fasting to achieve administrative or political changes will...
That night Omar Bradley slept in Van Fleet's room, which faced on the street. Ike-on the insistence of the Secret Service-slept in a room off the street and facing the compound. And four-starred Jim Van Fleet, outranked all around, moved to an Army cot in the laundry...
When the young bush nurse drove her buggy up to a tenant shack on a cattle station in Queensland, Australia, she expected to find teething trouble or an upset stomach. Instead, she found the stockman's 2½-year-old daughter lying crippled on a cot. One knee was drawn up, the foot pointed down and the heel twisted outward. One paralyzed arm lay across her chest. The nursing sister had never seen a case like it, so she drove miles to a telegraph office and wired a doctor for advice. His reply: "Infantile paralysis. No known treatment...
...Runs His Show. Ever since the coup Naguib has been working 18 hours a day, bedding down at night on a shabby army cot outside his office in Abbasiya Barracks, his GHQ. He is up with the buglers (6 a.m.) in time to say his morning prayers and read a chapter from the Koran before sitting down to breakfast (yoghurt, one tomato, brown bread) and the morning papers. By 8 he is in his office-where King Farouk's picture has been ostentatiously turned to the wall-drafting DROs (Daily Routine Orders), interviewing local commanders, dictating replies...
...before. Beside the river he stumbled over the body of a small girl in pajamas, her skull shattered. Dominici sprinted toward the car. Under a plaid rug, among the roadside weeds, he found the body of a woman dressed in a kimona. Across the road, under an overturned camp cot, he found the bullet-pierced body of an elderly man in blue pajama pants...