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...sickly 100-pounder, known as "The Little Pale Star," who saw the future with terrible clarity: "Mark me, when I repeat that in less than twelve months we shall be in the midst of a bloody war." Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, blind in one eye and haggard with headaches, was a moderate who could say to his wife, even after the Confederacy under his presidency had fired on Fort Sumter: "Separation is not yet, of necessity, final. There has been no blood spilled more precious than that of a mule...
Trout & Needlepoint. In his rare moments of repose. Beedle Smith was a warm man of catholic tastes. He was an admitted raconteur, a passionate hunter and trout fisherman (he made his own skillfully fashioned rods), a talented chess and bridge player, and a voracious reader who wolfed Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad along with the military classics. He was also an unabashed needlepoint craftsman and the grower of prize roses. But it was his job, and especially his military job, that always absorbed him. His merciless schedule eventually broke Smith's health. Last week Beedle Smith died...
...militia, you cannot get a job." Added Jose Aurelio Lechuga Villanueva, 53, a fisherman for 36 years: "A fisherman cannot live. I used to be able to sell fish freely. Now everything goes to the Agrarian Reform at their price. You have nothing left with which to eat." One haggard mother recently landed at Key West in a small sailboat with her two children, a son, 11, a daughter, 7. Said she: "Their father wanted to send them to Russia-they are doing that with many children...
...Jack Soble spoke, the haggard defendant, charged with conspiring to gather and transmit U.S. defense secrets-a crime punishable by death-looked away and reached for a pill. He is, his doctor says, dying of leukemia...
Scribbled Notes. Eichmann sat grey-faced and haggard through the details. Occasionally, he seemed to have difficulty breathing. His attorney, Dr. Robert Servatius, reported that Eichmann has suffered two mild heart attacks during the trial, but the government-appointed doctor says he has only an arrhythmia (an irregular pulse) caused by nervous tension. When he was accused of having beaten to death the Jewish boy, Eichmann furiously scribbled notes to his lawyer; his mouth twitched, and he ran his tongue over his teeth. At times, his facial tics seemed uncontrollable. He has obviously lost weight, and his pale blue eyes...