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...Donnell prison camp-named for the town of O'Donnell. . . . A seven-mile hike to O'Donnell prison was ahead of us. . . . My first good look at O'Donnell prison was from atop a rise about a mile off. I saw a forbidding maze of tumbledown buildings, barbed wire entanglements, and high guard towers, from which flew the Jap flag. I had flown over this dismal spot several times, but never had given it more than passing appraisal. I wondered as I looked at it now how long I would be there; how long I could last...
Argentina's demand for a hearing would probably be lost in a maze of diplomatic acrimony. Mexico had already denied her plea. Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela had consented-and had had their faces slapped by the U.S. State Department, which wants no open hearing. Many Latin diplomats believe that the system of inter-American consultation has been done to death; that the Good Neighbors were deeply divided, would split into fragments. In this sense, Perón had won again...
...coping with a maze of inconceivably funny situations, the two young leading Indies preserve all the delightful style that made the book a best seller. They manage somehow to seem perfectly at home smuggling a case of measles into England or sleeping on the tower of Notre Dame. To describe further their troubles would be to give the picture away. "Our Hearts" is not a memorable production but is well worth and evening...
...they had been at El Alamein, Mareth, Enfidaville and Italy's Gustaf Line, the Germans were entrenched again. Now it was the Gothic Line, a complex of concrete pillboxes behind a maze of mine fields and barbed wire entanglements north of Italy's Arno River. Manning the positions were twelve divisions of stubborn Huns commanded by able Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. Their orders: to hold until the last day of summer...
...first big coups took place in the dead of night when he led 29 men through a maze of picket lines to the headquarters of Brigadier General Edwin H. Stoughton, captured the whole post. First thing the Union General knew about the raid was when Mosby pulled up his nightshirt, slapped him on the behind...