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...near Moab, Utah, an oil rigger returning to camp drove up moments too late to prevent a vicious murder. Off to the side of the road, clutching his bloody head, stood Charles Boothroyd, 55, a Hartford, Conn., machinist. Near by, fatally wounded, lay Mrs. Jeanette Sullivan, 40. In a ditch was a crumpled tan Volkswagen with sleeping bags and a tent lashed to its top, its interior littered with toilet paper, pillows and sun caps. Missing was Mrs. Sullivan's 14-year-old daughter Denise. Boothroyd and the Sullivans had been sightseeing at Dead Horse Point, a towering promontory...
...white slavers." In Mila 18, there are both good and bad Jews. The bad ones assist the Nazis in the systematic extermination of their fellow Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. The archvillains are the Germans-all cynics, slobs, sycophants and sadists. The hero, Andrei Androfski, leads the gallant last-ditch uprising out of the sewers and bunkers of Warsaw, but the only time he breaks down and weeps is over the death of his horse Batory, "the finest, the most beautiful and the most fierce animal in all of Poland...
...first problem is the improvement of basic techniques for eliminating illiteracy, and the second is the elimination of mechanical illiteracy" among people at the educational level of "pre-Roman Anglo-Saxons," Bruner noted. He cited the importance of teaching the natives show to read a diagram and dig a ditch" in the overall picture of the development of the country...
...according to Birley, Wellington visited his old house at Eton, where boarders in his day had been looked after by a Mrs. Naylor. Asking to see a stream in the garden, the Iron Duke explained : "I really think I learned my spirit of adventure jumping over the big black ditch at the bottom of Mrs. Naylor's garden...
Next, Eichmann's averted but all-seeing eye was at Minsk, where a huge ditch was filled with living Jews: "They were shooting into the pit, and I saw a woman, her hands seemed tied behind her back, and then my knees went weak and I went away." But not far, for he was soon watching another mass execution near by. "There was a trench-already filled, and there was a kind of spring of blood gushing from the earth, and this, too, I had never seen before. I had had enough and went back to Berlin...