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Miller's father, sitting in the courtroom, wept. Then he and his wife drove to Stateville Penitentiary. After ten years, during which he had faced execution ten separate times, their son, now 40, walked through the gates pulling a handcart piled with his possessions...
...more-than-casual observer it would appear that the French Fourth Republic is going to hell in a handcart. Plagued by inflation, colonial wars, and internal instability, France seems paralyzed by a persecution complex of major dimensions...
...Dancing Bear, a warmhearted but coolheaded account of how Berlin rose from its ashes, Frances Faviell, wife of a British occupation officer, describes how the cold war tore one German family apart. The author met her heroine, Frau Maria Altmann, when the old German lady, who was pushing a handcart piled high with furniture, collapsed in the street. By her own admission, Author Faviell had gone to Germany "wanting vengeance," but in Frau Altmann's lined face she saw a quiet human courage that made vengeance seem irrelevant. For the next three years-through a nightmare of cold...
...year-old Corsaro went with two friends to Spilamberto's priest, who had charge of the cannon, and persuaded him to yield the trophy in exchange for a signed receipt. Detouring en route so the countryside might see, Il Corsaro trundled the cannon home in a handcart, and received a hero's welcome: a supper of lasagna, tortellini, young kid, pork and chicken, topped off by a demijohn of wine. Next day, he loaded the cannon with a double charge of powder, and fired it in the direction of Spilamberto. Unfortunately, the heavy charge split the breech...
...cellar of a bombed-out building in Vienna several children are wintering like rats. The youngest, Tiny, is lying covered with newspapers in a handcart. The shrewdest, Yid, 13, a pickpocket, bends over her. "She is nearly going," he says to seven-year-old Curls. "Look at her belly. I know, from camp. You can die from a shrink belly or you can die from a balloon belly...