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...fort, a sniper plinked away whenever an Israeli headed for a shower. The commander knew that artillery would be of little use; 105-mm. howitzers had been tried before, but only made the trees sway. Besides, the shells cost $85 apiece. One morning, the commander rose before dawn, hid among the dunes and, as soon as the sun began rising at his back, saw a slight movement in the sniper's tree. The commander's second shot brought the Egyptian down...
...they sense the world's difficulties as a vague and unapproachable collage of images. When we were in eighth grade, we slept along with the somnambulant decade. But, thanks to an increasingly intrusive media system and the awakening of their older brothers, the enormity of the world cannot be hid from these students...
From his house, Jesse recalls, he could look down one street and watch gamblers and bootleggers running from cops. "Firemen, rent collectors, store owners, police?these were my symbols of white authority, and we hid from all of them." He could look in another direction and see symbols of black respectability: a neatly kept house containing a family with three well-educated schoolteachers. He could also see a white school, but instead of attending it he had to walk five miles to reach his black school. He experienced cruder prejudice early. At the age of six, he rushed happily into...
...outburst that may have cost Patton his command of the Seventh Army. Now that the film Patton, starring George C. Scott (TIME, Feb. 9), re-creates Kuhl's agony, the victim recalls: "As I started out of the [hospital] tent, he booted me in the fanny. They hid me in the litter bearers' tent until he left." Kuhl, who proved to have malaria, adds: "I think he was suffering a little battle fatigue himself...
Police believe that the suspect hid in the library until after closing time on August 19, then went to the roof, climbed down the rope to a window, and broke into the Widener Room where the Bible is kept. He removed the Bible from its display case and was attempting to climb down the rope to the ground outside when he fell...