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...nearest competitor) was a stocky Cuban named Machito ("The Kid"). One of the chief attractions at Manhattan's La Conga, kinky-haired Machito (real name Frank Grillo) has built his reputation among knowing Latins with a high-octane rumba style that would rattle the fenders off a jeep. Often he prances before his ten-piece band in a solo rumba routine known as the Golpe de Bibijajua (derived from the limping walk of one of North Africa's largest insects). The band is brassy and solid, without Cugat's high romantic perfumery. Machito accepted La Prensa...
...jeep Giraud banged along over 500 miles of rough terrain. At one point a mine blew up a jeep directly ahead of him. Heedless of danger, Giraud rushed forward, found that a Foreign Legion lieutenant, one of his close friends, had been killed. In other mined areas he strode about, heedless of possible explosions, explaining that if sappers walked there generals could...
...field Giraud conferred with Eisenhower, Lieut. General George Patton and General Sir Harold Alexander, helped direct the capture of Gafsa (see p. 14). A German plane flew low over his own jeep but did not strafe it. Giraud shrugged his shoulders, thinking of his baraka (a supernatural ability to escape death). Wherever he went he asked: "Le Boche-where...
...foreigner so trusted. In a bomber with two other American officers, General Pat was flown over the front where the Russians were completing one of the most complicated encircling operations in military history. Pat & friends saw it all in detail. Later the Hurley party toured the front in a jeep, lived at field headquarters and had the best of Russian hospitality and cooperation. In return, Pat Hurley taught his warrior friends the high, piercing Choctaw...
Early Sunday morning, hours before daybreak, General Dwight Eisenhower rode up in a jeep to inspect the Allied positions at Sidi bou Zid, a few miles west of Faïd Pass. The U.S. soldiers had just moved in to relieve French troops. The whole situation was precarious. Eisenhower had been maintaining this mountainous front-from Pichon to Faïd Pass southwest to Gafsa-largely by bluff...