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...shocks or drugs to make the very odor of liquor abhorrent. At Seattle's Schick's Shadel Hospital, which offers an eleven-day, $1,500 program, each patient is taken to "Duffy's Tavern," a small room decorated with enough bottles of whisky to lubricate a regiment. The patient is given a nausea-inducing shot and then handed a glass of his favorite brand. He sniffs the aroma, takes a sip and swirls it around in his mouth. Then, sickened, he spits it out into a handy container...
...somehow good-natured disasters-banishment, war, scourging, mass slaughter, piracy, the Spanish Inquisition, slavery, concubinage-until at last the wanderers come to El Dorado. Leading pink sheep laden with glimmering ingots, Candide and Cunegonde arrive with their innocence reasonably intact, although such setbacks as her rape by a regiment of Bulgarian soldiers have left Cunegonde with a somewhat supple interpretation of purity...
...soldier, Svejk, goes through the war doing everything he's told, but managing to get it just wrong enough to stay far from the front lines where he might have to do some fighting. It's hard for the army to shoot someone who turns up miles behind his regiment, beaming, innocent, full of patriotic fervor, and consumed by contrition because somehow he can't seem to find it. Only on rare occasions, with other ordinary soldiers, does Svejk let his real opinions show, and even on these rare occasions he usually allows himself not openness but sarcasm--long accounts...
Rumbling down the dark pavement near midnight, four olive drab trucks pulled up to the headquarters gate of Argentina's 10th Armored Cavalry Regiment of Azul, 170 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. A guard routinely challenged the lead truck-and was cut down by a hail of bullets. By the time government troops could counterattack, 60 to 70 "soldiers," all in army fatigues and full battle gear, had stormed into the officers' quarters. They held their position for seven hours, long enough to kill Base Commander Colonel Camilo Gay and his wife. Then they took Lieut. Colonel Jorge...
...Soviet army general who was arrested during the Stalin purge of 1938, sentenced to 15 years in the icy Kolyma concentration camp but later "rehabilitated" to fight the Nazis; in Moscow. Gorbatov joined the army and fought successfully in the civil war, rising to command a cavalry regiment. Following his arrest for "liberalism," along with many other army leaders, he refused to sign a false confession even after being tortured. Reinstated in 1941, he eventually commanded the Third Army in its march on Berlin...