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Home Flown. In Milwaukee, caught robbing a beer depot because he wanted to give his family "a nice Christmas" after cops had sought him for 16 months, Jail Escapee Richard Heinz admitted that he hid out for the entire time in his wife's apartment, left only in the late evening for burglary forays, avoided alerting neighbors by ducking windows, teaching his three children to call him "Cowboy" instead of daddy, hid in a closet whenever cops, sheriff's deputies or the FBI searched the place...
Pushed, pummeled and applauded during his tour of the Camp Kilmer refugee depot last week, Vice President Nixon was asked by a newsman: "Doesn't the fanfare make it difficult for you to get at the facts?" Answered Nixon: "If the fanfare and publicity help at all to increase Americans' understanding of the refugees, then it's served a useful purpose...
...Kilian barracks there was such a big crowd that Peter was about to quit and go home when someone called for a truck driver, and he came forward. Peter drove "a tall colonel who seemed to be in charge" to an arms depot, called the Lamp Factory, where they loaded cases of rifles and machine guns. The revolutionary fever caught Peter up at this point, and he was swept into the battle for Radio Budapest, shooting from the rooftops...
...delegation of local people had pleaded with the Fighters to stop the battle because the neighborhood was in ruins. When he reached home, Peter learned that the AVH had been around asking questions about him. His wife had said that he was at work, but at the truck depot he learned that they had already checked there. Tough little Peter Szanto knew that he was a wanted man. He is a wanted man today...
...first, faint light of dawn silhouetted rugged peaks, then picked out the barracks, the ammunition depot and the sandbagged trench surrounding a hilltop army outpost called Praga in the Colombian Andes. Praga's commander, a lieutenant, was not there; he and most of his platoon had been called away to chase cattle thieves, leaving a corporal in charge. A yawning sentry leaned on a bayoneted rifle; 17 soldiers slept...