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...before they started out. Conselheiro's followers, the jagunços, had dug trenches, spied out the land, sharpened scythes and cattle prongs, repaired their antique muskets, even built crossbows, and prayed ceaselessly. As the expedition started, Moreira Cesar had an attack of epilepsy. It was a bad omen. His troops drove back Conselheiro's outposts, rushed on madly until they were in sight of Canudos...
...front, from the Dnieper's mouth to the Carpathians, four Red Armies hacked their way forward. Their prime objective: the web of railroads over which the enemy could be reinforced-or retreat. This week, all but one inferior escape line into Rumania had been cut. Birds of ill omen hovered over the fringes of the German-held steppe -air transports were dropping fuel and supplies to stalled trucks and tanks...
...OMEN - Lawrence Treaf -Duell, Sloan and Pearce ($2). The sudden death of a cook turns the rural week end of Psychologist Carl Wayward and his wife into a murder investigation that involves extrasensory perception, precognitive dreams, psychiatry and unadorned violence in its suspenseful course. Not altogether convincing, but notable for crispness and novelty...
Just before Franklin Roosevelt arrived in Quebec last week, a summer rain stopped, the sun came out, and a rainbow appeared in the southern sky. To some who waited at the railway siding, this was an omen. But most of the world would wait for better evidence...
...surgical dressings, she remembers a legend that foretells a better day: "Three hundred years ago, a king of Java prophesied that yellow people would invade Java-but not for long. Look at that-not for long. Means they will not be there long, the Japs. It is good omen...