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...Mister Khrushchev, preceded always by the heavy-footed scuffle of scores of security guards, waved their hats to thousands, dispensed autographs to clusters of children, gaped with tourist-like awe at sights and monuments. At one point, when a crowd sprinkled rose petals on Khrushchev's bald pate, Bu1ganin happily brushed them off with his wide-brimmed straw. Visiting an ancient observatory, Khrushchev asked for his horoscope, but was told it would take weeks of reading the stars to prepare. With a huge floral wreath, the two went to India's most important memorial, Raj Ghat, where Mahatma...
...rations and Wheaties, and to drink beer out of a helmet or a glass. She also learned to string communications wire efficiently and to kneel down when enemy fire came close (the marines always covered her with their flak jackets on such occasions). After the war, Major General Randolph Pate, commanding general of the 1st, cited Reckless for bravery and formally promoted her to the rank of sergeant.* Today the seven-year-old mare is living in honored retirement, knee-deep in alfalfa, near Camp Pendleton, Calif...
...dysentery out of his hut into 40°-below-zero cold, but he insisted that he did not thereby cause or hasten the death of the man. Gallagher denied that he had ejected a second emaciated man into the snow, as charged by six prosecution witnesses. When Sergeant Lloyd Pate, leader of the camp's anti-Communist "reactionaries," taxed him with the death of one of the men in the snow, "I told him to mind his own goddamn business," said Gallagher...
...Reactionaries. Leader of the reactionaries. Sergeant Pate developed the indictment. One wintry day when the temperature was 30° below zero. Sergeant Pate and five or six of his friends heard blows, body blows they thought, coming from one of the huts. "I saw Gallagher lifting a man off the floor roughly," said Pate. "He carried him to the wall near the corner. As far as I could see, he hung him in some way to a peg in the wall. His feet were about six inches off the floor. Then Gallagher stepped back and laughed. He reached...
...Communists could accord him. "I know I'm a sorry son of a bitch," Gallagher told one of the reactionaries one day, "but after all, I know I can't quit ..." The reactionaries were not sympathetic: "I told him if I lived and he lived," said Sergeant Pate, "I would personally see that he was hung...