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...next morning Allied howitzers and trucks lay sprawled in the ditch along a supply road called the "Goat Trail." Not many ROKs showed up at aid stations or mobile hospitals; most of their wounded were in enemy hands. Stragglers without guns and helmets, and sometimes without shoes, appeared one by one. When asked where their equipment was, they shrugged. One said, "A helmet makes more noise in the bushes than the man who's wearing it does...
...parents named him Ernst Paul Walter Ulbricht when he was born in 1893, but in later years he got to be known by many aliases-Comrade Cell, Comrade Motor, Sorenson, Urvich, Leo (and, behind his back, Billy Goat). At 15, he joined a workers' youth organization, at 17, the German Woodworkers' Union. At 19, he joined the Social Democratic Party, where he got acquainted with Das Kapital. When a renegade bloc of Socialists merged with Rosa Luxemburg's and Karl Liebknecht's Spartakusbund in 1920 to form the German Communist Party, Walter Ulbricht was there...
...tribute to the great Greek spirit and love of Americans, they bedded me in one of the only standing buildings in the area and brought me a hot glass of goat's milk. In my ignorance of this unselfish (as I later learned) gift, I almost refused it because of the possibility of contracting some disease...
...late great Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, the Afternoon of a Faun was a lazy, sensual episode in the life of a mythological goat-man; he danced it (to Debussy's famed music) in horns, tail and dappled tights. Manhattan's Choreographer Jerome Robbins, 34, had a different idea. Last week the New York City Ballet presented the Robbins-version faun as a Narcissus rather than a goat-man; the title role went to a shirtless young ballet dancer in practice tights...
...audience, some of it expecting the old (and more emphatic) goat-man theme, was somewhat surprised by the innovations. But it admired the perform ance, burst into applause during one superbly turned movement, and at the end clapped until the house lights went...