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...prearranged signal, a Moslem sentry on duty let him and a handful of the rebels into the courtyard. A Moslem sergeant and corporal emerged stealthily from one of the huts and greeted him. Each set up a machine gun and trained it on the door of the hut where the Europeans lay sleeping. Abd el Krim stole into another hut, shot the French commander and his top sergeant dead in their beds. Wakened by the noise, the other soldiers jumped up, grabbed their rifles. The two Moslem noncoms mowed them down in the doorway. Before relief could arrive, the rebels...
...Besides, Debra has to clear her name. First it is revealed that the papoose is not hers-she was simply baby-sitting for a friend. Next, astonished moviegoers learn that Taylor has not been making very determined passes at the girl when they retire each night to their little hut. After absorbing these whoppers, the audience is prepared for one more anticlimax: Taylor tracks the fleeing Granger and Debra to a hillside cave, but instead of shooting them down, obligingly camps outside all night. By morning he is frozen stiff as an ice cube-even though the weather is apparently...
Seven undergraduates died during vacation--three in a ski hut fire at Mont Tremblant, Que., two in a head-on auto collision in Indiana, and two by suicide...
...want of a hearse, her family postponed the funeral, and for two nights and three days stood vigil by the rough-hewn wooden coffin in which Mavis lay. Last week, with a hearse and 200 friends of the bereaved gathered outside the Sithebe hut, Mavis' father stood ready, hammer in hand, to nail the coffin's lid, while Mavis' grandmother knelt down with a basin of water and washed the girl's wan face. Slowly, the body stirred and turned over, face down. Father and grandmother dropped hammer and basin and rushed from the hut. Followed...
Sergeant Gallagher admitted that he had ejected a corporal suffering from dysentery out of his hut into 40°-below-zero cold, but he insisted that he did not thereby cause or hasten the death of the man. Gallagher denied that he had ejected a second emaciated man into the snow, as charged by six prosecution witnesses. When Sergeant Lloyd Pate, leader of the camp's anti-Communist "reactionaries," taxed him with the death of one of the men in the snow, "I told him to mind his own goddamn business," said Gallagher...