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Touring the Punjab hinterland, Shriver's first stop was at Daon Paren, a village of some 300 houses and huts. Peering inside such dwelling places, Shriver saw a sick old woman lying in a rag-covered bed, asked where she could get medical aid. He was told that a health center about four miles away was the only place where medicine could be obtained. Inspecting a relatively comfortable hut, Shriver remarked: "This guy is really well off." He was quietly informed that the hut's owner sustained himself and his family by working as a taxi driver...
...bodied Junkers, shot upward, swerved right, then banked sharply, with his guns blazing. The German bomber fluttered down, trailing smoke. At a Red Air Force headquarters, a 35th digit was marked against the name of Major Alexander Pokryshkin. Across the breadth of Russia, men & women grinned and muttered: "Molodets paren"-atta boy. For to them, Alexander Pokryshkin is one of the war's top air heroes...
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