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...antique Persian medallion carpet should hang free from the wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes' eye for impact value rates much of the credit for the show's success...
Around Gumbinnen, the first sizable town on the rail line to Königsberg, Chern-yakhovsky ran into progressively stronger defenses-trenches, minefields, barbed wire. Every settlement was a fortress, every house and hillock a gun position. Heinrich Himmler's Home Army units were easily killed or captured, but the Wehrmacht traded punch for punch...
...closed grey van drove into the courtyard of Rome's Fort Bravetta. It stopped by a hillock of brown grass, browner dirt. In front of the hillock stood a nakedly bare pine chair...
...Well." A carabiniere brought his crutches. Caruso carefully hunched his body on them, swung himself over to the chair. He had trouble straddling it, his face to the hillock. Quickly Caruso's pudgy body was bound to the chair's back. Then he was left with the priest. They talked. Caruso prayed and kissed a tiny crucifix attached to a specially blessed rosary that Pope Pius XII had sent him. The priest stepped away...
...Germans inched on into the environs of Stalingrad. Day by day, for four weeks, they had sent mountains of men and machines to batter the Red Army back across dusty steppes toward the Volga. Colossal expenditures bought each hillock, each ravine, each village, exacting of the Russians losses at least as heavy. The precise location of the battle line was not revealed by either Berlin or Moscow communiqués, but Moscow reported this week that fighting was going on "in Stalingrad." The heaviest pressure and steadiest German progress was from the southwest, toward the Volga bend directly below Stalingrad...