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Next day EOKA, the right-wing underground terrorist outfit, issued its own communique. The EOKA announcement: it had hanged two British soldiers-Corporals Gordon Hill and Ronnie Shilton-in reprisal. The word was spread in leaflets scattered through Nicosia. EOKA warned: "We shall answer hanging with hanging and torture with torture." British troops caught one 19-year-old handing out the leaflets, shot him dead as he tried...
...outfit will concentrate at first on guided missiles but will undertake almost anything dealing with technological research and development, including "serious exploration of outer space." Ford is putting an initial $10 million into the venture, plans to build a $13,500,000 research and development facility, probably in the Los Angeles area, to be completed in 1958 and employ 1,000 to 2,000. Absorption of Systems Research, composed mainly of scientists who quit the Lockheed missiles program in a policy squabble, gives Ford a readymade, topflight scientific team plus a batch of government contracts...
...Interior after Hitler's legal takeover of the German state in 1933. Next year the Gestapo, which never exceeded 40,000, became a part of Heinrich Himmler's black-uniformed SS (Schutz Staff el) and Reinhard ("The Hangman") Heydrich's intelligence branch of the same outfit, the dreaded SD (Sicherheitsdienst). Hitler deliberately confused the powers and duties of these services in order to divide and control Himmler, Heydrich and other aides who never ceased to intrigue against each other and frequently arrested and killed weaker rivals. But Gestapo remained the generic term for the instrument which (according...
Next day, when the news broke, all Ireland chuckled, and the usually sober-sided Irish Times ran a happy cartoon showing a trench-coated figure carrying a parcel with words, "It's the Jour d'Eté, and it's hot." An outfit called the Irish National Students Council boasted that two of its members had taken the picture. The night before, two young Irishmen got up on the roof of the Tate Gallery, but police had spotted them and set dogs on them. So next day the young vandals simply walked in, took down the picture...
...Gallant Name. In a single year Cadet Foucauld spent 21 days in simple arrest, 45 days in disciplinary arrest; he graduated 87th in a class of 87. He was cashiered from his regiment for taking his mistress Mimi along with him to Algeria. But later, when his old outfit, the 4th Hussars, ran into sticky fighting against the Arabs. Foucauld tossed Mistress Mimi aside, wangled reinstatement, and made a gallant name for himself. He never went back to his foie gras and champagne. Instead, at 29. he returned to the church, joined the Trappists, then decided that the Trappist austerities...