Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Icardi denied the whole story. LoDolce confessed in detail. But no U.S. court had jurisdiction over a crime committed in Italy, and the Army, having honorably discharged both LoDolce and Icardi, had no legal means of bringing them to justice. Finally, however, the Holohan case was made public. Though LoDolce retracted his confession, the Italian government asked that he be extradited to stand trial for murder...
...Ogden Pleissner, 47, one of the best-known U.S. realists: The Ramparts, St. Malo and The Arno, both examples of his regard for detail, color and mood...
...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...
Leopoldov Prison in central Czechoslovakia is a 17th century fortress with walls 39 feet thick. There last December Stepan Gavenda. a tough Czech worker serving a rap for anti-Communist activity, saw a prison work detail taking bricks, sand and cement into a tunnel in the fortress wall. Said Gavenda to his frailer friend Jaroslav Bures. a bookkeeper also convicted for antiCommunism: "Where there is a hole to be filled in, there's a hole to get out." At the first opportunity they explored the tunnel, which proved to be an old gun port, and found...
...decided, must be a taillike fragment knocked off some larger fragment. They would shift it around, like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, until they found a spot where it could be placed to form a familiar compound. Little by little, their picture of the insulin molecule took on detail. At last they were sure they knew where each building block belonged...