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...village idiot had hexed Baker Briand's flour, that the flour had been packed in fertilizer sacks, that rats in the grain elevator had contaminated the flour. The police knew better. They had traced the flour back from Briand's bakeshop through the government-controlled flour depot to a mill near Poitiers, nearly 300 miles away...
...enlists, only to be marooned on a tiny South Pacific island supply depot. There he types reams in a confessional diary, relating his failure as a human being to that of all the other middle-class Mr. Smiths who, in Thoreau's phrase, "lead lives of quiet desperation." He decides he has never been his own man. His values have come f.o.b. Detroit, New York, Hollywood. Instead of the surges of the heart, he has lived by the slogans of the hucksters. One night a confused sentry mistakes him for a Jap, sends him to meet the man-sized...
...only other U.S. tank producer in full swing, has just begun to produce an improved version of the postwar General Patton tank (plus modernizing several hundred World War II Pershings, mostly for Korea). Principal trouble: the arsenal is used as a research and development center and as a repair depot, in addition to its production duties. World War II experience was that those three functions do not mix well...
...parents, Antonio and Maria Cocozza, had a six-room house and brought up their only child with pampering indulgence. The elder Cocozza, a decorated World War I combat veteran on a total disability pension, is a semi-invalid; his wife worked as a seamstress in the Army quartermaster depot. Freddy, as everyone called their son, was a spoiled, reckless kid: one of his teachers still remembers him with a shudder as "one of the biggest bums that ever came into the public-school system...
...next day, the navy held all of south Bangkok. Army and police were in control of the north, while air force trainers, fitted with improvised bomb racks, fought a desperate duel with navy ships in the river for command of the west side's dockyards and fuel depots. A black pall spread over the city as a bomb struck square on a fuel depot. At one point, the navy sent out an amphibious landing force, only to see it wiped out from the air. An air-force bomb caught the Sri Ayuthia. Fire broke out on board...