Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engagement, became so successful at outwitting the rebels ("He thinks like a fellagha," says one of his officers) that the army put him in charge of a special school which next month will begin to give French officers intensive training in combatting "subversive war." Last week the French army let out one chapter in Bigeard's career that hitherto had been kept secret-the cloak-and-dagger tale of how he, in effect, became commander of a band of enemy terrorists in Algiers' casbah...
Almost in tears, Georghios Papageorghiou, plump owner of the theater he had spent $123,000 on, begged the British: "Let me carry the bombs out. Someone carried them in. They can't be all that dangerous." But as dusk neared, houses and shops adjoining the theater were cleared, police cordoned off adjoining streets, a siren warned everyone away. At 6:51 p.m., in a sheet of flame and with a blast that rocked Famagusta's old north wall, the British exploded the bombs. The top two stories of the theater's living quarters collapsed, snapping telephone poles...
Dictator Juan Perón let Patagonian smuggling flourish from 1945 to 1953. In July 1956 President Pedro Aramburu revived the free zone with the old, futile hope that it could make an eroded wasteland blossom. Instead, refrigerators, watches, lingerie, television sets and bubble gum began moving across the border. Wooden handles stamped "made south of parallel 42" were slapped into imported shovels, wooden bases with the same markings were attached to Japanese sewing machines, and all the loot found its way north to market. Most lucrative item of all was the automobile, legally subject to duties of six times...
...Let It Spread. In 1953, when Ruschi was bat-hunting in the back-country state of Mato Grosso, he found a cave piled three feet deep with dead and dying vampires. This looked promising, so he collected sample bats and hurried them to his laboratory. From them he isolated germs that will spread from bat to bat and kill them in 120 days. "The long incubation period is good," says Dr. Ruschi. "It helps the victim spread the disease before he dies...
...back on the job. This summer Schleppey will have a cataract removed from his left eye, afterwards wants to do nothing but paint pictures and write a book on modern art. But for the time being, Strikebreaker Schleppey is still up for hire. Says he: "I'll never let these publishers down as long as I'm active...