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...openly into the open city, weapons concealed in luggage or under baskets of food, riding buses, taxis and motor scooters, or walking. Others came furtively: some of the Viet Cong who attacked the U.S. embassy had ridden into town concealed in a truckload of flowers. Once in town, they hid their weapons. Only after the attack did Vietnamese intelligence realize that the unusual number of funerals the previous week was no accident: the Viet Cong had buried their weapons in the funeral coffins, dug them up on the night of the assault. They even test-fired their guns during...
...save people from capture, Wolf falsified travel papers, appealed to the German ambassador over the heads of the SS and the Gestapo. He even met the great art expert Bernard Berenson, a Jew and a U.S. citizen, at the villa where friends hid the old man for 13 months. For keeping that one secret alone, Wolf could have wound up in a concentration camp. But he went much further. He collaborated with the Florentines in hiding paintings and sculpture, and worked desperately through the church and the German ambassador to keep the city from becoming a military objective, although...
...performance had been uneven: ravishing in some spots, somewhat ravaging in others. As the second act got under way, her vocal lines became tangled with Soprano Nancy Tatum's in a tricky cabaletta, Si, fino all'ore, estreme; she reached for a high C, missed, and hid her face behind her arm in chagrin. A sour chorus of boos accompanied her exit. Suddenly, in the middle of the act, the lights went up again and the orchestra filed offstage, leaving the audience murmuring in confusion. Suliotis had asked for an unscheduled intermission in order to pull herself together...
Having studied carefully and in absolute calmness the above questionnaire, and in full knowledge of the criminal sanctions in case of false declaration, I declare that my answers, the product of my free and uninfluenced will, correspond fully to the truth and that I hid nothing relating to the questions presented me. Signature...
...jail was a fake touched up with expert plastic surgery to look like the real Be, and kept up the flow of adulation for their martyred hero. Now, stung by the way in which the Americans spread word of Be's nonheroic non-death-he hid in a river while the battle raged-they have switched to a terror campaign to silence those who can prove his identity...