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...prayer for Gandhi in the temple at Delhi was only part of a vast and tragic sense of gloom that engulfed India. In the fields the peasants laid aside their wooden plows. In mud-hut villages and princely palaces the talk was of Gandhi. Only the unbending British Raj would be blamed by millions of Indians if Gandhi died inside the guarded Palace of the Aga Khan at Poona...
...brothel. He and Fyodor rushed the brothel, were stopped by a sentry. They "looped a wire around his neck." Sergei found Natasha with a German officer. He fired. In an instant "she came leaping over the body" into Sergei's arms. Soon they were safe in a snow hut built by Sergei. Fyodor's face was "placid." He was dead...
Later Jimmy demanded and got more modern equipment and pictures through Australia. Grateful Australian airmen built him a hut, rebuilt it when a 500-lb. bomb took it apart (Jimmy was staying, at the moment, in a nearby slit trench named Pooh-Bah Palace). Australians and Americans have also built a chain of eight theaters which extend from Port Moresby to Milne Bay and deep into the jungle. The seats are smoothed logs nailed to stumps. The theater's acoustic walls are the jungle, which adds its own soundeffects and out of which appear like moths...
Soviet scouts in the outskirts of Stalingrad bagged the season's first typical winter German. His head was wrapped in a woman's shawl looted from some Russian peasant hut. A threadbare blanket with a hole cut in the middle served him as a poncho. The Red Army men, dressed in the standard winter sheepskin shubas (coats), fleece-lined caps and warm valenki (knee-high felt boots), seized the shivering Fritz as he stood sentry duty over a zigzag trench full of freezing Germans. All he could mumble was "holodno" (cold...
...popular weekend snow trains will not run during the season this year, skiers may still commute to the centers in the north through regular traveling facilities. This winter a special bus will run through Pinkham Notch, thereby making it easy for skiers to reach the Club's ski hut...