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...death did rot even begin until long after the Russians had made their own inquiry and carted off most of the evidence. "From personal and official knowledge," said Russia's Marshal Zhukov, then commander of Berlin, "we can say that Hitler had good opportunities to make a getaway with his bride." No official Russian report was ever forthcoming to indicate what that knowledge was; no eyewitnesses stepped forward to refute or endorse it. Instead a host of rumors and lesser legends arose to pique the imagination with the suggestion that Hitler was alive and biding his time for reconquest...
Beast-Car with fast getaway...
They are "briefed" on an "operation"; they carry not guns or rods, but "weapons" supplied by their own ordnance officer; they attack an "objective" and never make a getaway-they "withdraw." When they are not in action, most of them behave like polite, narrow-lapelled Madison Avenue admen...
...cars go too fast." But there were other things to think about when race day dawned fine, dry and made for speed. On the dot of 4 p.m. the 60 sports-car entrants-among them, Mercedes, Jaguar, Ferrari, Frazer-Nash, Maserati, Cunningham-began the 24-hour run. Right after getaway they whipped past the grandstand into the sharp Tertre Rouge turn, roared on down the straightaway on a four-mile dash toward the Mulsanne hairpin, and on around the 8.38 mile circuit past the White House...
...hours, giving him almost no rest. To show Caminito how hopeless his cause was, the police worked a trick: a male detective and two women from the pickpocket squad, posing as witnesses to the crime, confronted Caminito and pretended to identify him as the driver of the getaway car. Caminito finally signed a confession (he later signed a second one) and was duly sentenced to life in prison after the confessions were used as evidence in court. Last week, after 13 years behind bars during which he appealed vainly in New York state courts, Santo Caminito won the right...