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...Gavenda's work detail planned the escape. Prison guards armed with submachine guns patrolled the top of the fortress wall, but the work detail wangled a job close to the tunnel entrance. Each day one man crept into the tunnel and scratched away at the still soft mortar. One of the six men seemed too weak to make the break. This was the one they called Johnny, a shy, silent 24-year-old with pinched cheeks and the jumpy eyes of a man who has spent a long time in solitary. He was having trouble with his feet...
Next morning at 9:30, after waiting for Europe's famed Simplon-Orient Express to roar along the nearby tracks on its way from Sofia to Istanbul, the Greeks opened fire with machine guns and mortars. After 60 minutes' bombardment and no reply, four bedraggled Bulgars crept off the sandbank and sloshed across the river into the woods on the Communist side. By nightfall, despite a constant barrage of propaganda insults on the Bulgarian and Greek radios, and much continued fluttering at U.N., General Manidakis was able to report that all was quiet on the Evros front...
...only Los Angeles' super-streamlined Hurricane IV, whose engine had not been started in time to begin the second heat. As the two boats churned around the course, Hurricane IV's engine balked again and quit. In the face of such universal bad luck, Stanley Dollar carefully crept (heat speed: 84.35 m.p.h.) through the last seven laps alone, prayerfully "counted every lap." If Slo-mo IV had fallen out, Miss Pepsi would have been the winner by default. But Dollar's hydroplane held up: the surviving boat won the Gold...
...warrior named Mdhlani Ngcobo remained loyal to the whites and was rewarded by being made head man of his village. Mdhlani married, prospered, begat children, grew old, respected and respectable. But one son, Clifford, became a thief and a gangster. Three years ago, son Clifford, all his bravado gone, crept into his father's hut. He whispered that he had murdered a white Durban policeman, and blubbered: "They will hang...
...armored cars. By that time, the kidnaped workmen had been released. The Russians and the Vopos had drawn back and dug in on a hill just inside the Soviet Zone. Going into position, the Britons rolled across the meadow below in easy range of the Communist guns. The Russians crept to the forward edge of their vantage point and dug in deeper...