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Hoffa continued to crawl. He saw nothing wrong, he said, about the conflicting interests he had been maintaining; he admitted that a dishonest union boss might take advantage of business deals and loans made with employers of truck drivers, but fortunately for the Teamsters, Hoffa protested, he is an honorable man. But he could not recall, for example, where he had borrowed part of $20,000 that he had invested in one company; neither could he remember why he borrowed $5,000 from a businessman who had a Teamster contract...
...German "black" radio, the British heard that the Germans had a "fog-pill" by which parachutists would float down in the semblance of a small cloud. Actually, at the time, Hitler's Chiefs of Staff were toying with a "War Crocodile"-a huge reinforced-concrete tank designed to crawl across the Channel on the sea floor. The public was officially warned against strange gossamer-like threads seen floating in the air. They turned out not to be a secret weapon but something to do with the mating of spiders...
...East and West. Asch, who has risen from the ranks to become a lieutenant of artillery, is part of a disorganized unit surrounded by U.S. troops. A stray Nazi colonel named Hauk and his sinister aide, Lieut. Greifer, order an attack on a crossroads "with everything that can still crawl." Its nonmilitary purpose, correctly divined by Gunner Asch, is to let Hauk and Greifer escape...
...also provides some hilarious examples of TV shoptalk ("Great show. J.B." "Ye-e-es, I think it had size"). And all the while he is sinking the oyster knife into his victim, who loves nothing in the world so much as power-above all the power to make people crawl...
Daggers from Faye. Next, crabs began to crawl over Diana's bedroom ceiling ("Can you get DTs when you're only thirty?"). A heart attack carried off husband Bob, leaving Diana at the mercy of strong-minded Dan Freeman, her summer-stock leading man. Dan led Diana to a children's playground, murmured: "Come on, baby, sit in the swing . . . You're a sick girl. Diana . . . You are going to get to God." Instead. Diana found Dan massaging her back, crooning gently: "Ei-lu-lu, Bab-en-u. Ei-lu-lu-lu-lu. Baby...