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...tell you," said the red-faced man, downing his fourth brandy, "how the Rucks were murdered. The Mau Mau were on the farm for three days, hiding in the huts of the Rucks' 'trusted, loyal' Kukes. Nobody told the Rucks. When Roger Ruck spoke to one of his Kukes, the Kuke grinned, and said, 'Yes, bwana.' He didn't say, 'Bwana, it's all decided, we're going to kill you tonight.' When Mrs. Ruck was handing out medicine to sick Kukes, they didn't say, 'Look...
Kenya's white settlers blame Kimathi for the recent murder of Planter Roger Ruck, his wife and six-year-old son, hacked to pieces as they strolled in their garden in their pajamas. One white policeman, a friend of the Rucks, is flushing the jungle alone, determined to get Kimathi...
...last week, Rosemary Clooney's appealing voice was as omnipresent as jukeboxes and disk jockeys. Two of her records were high on the bestseller lists, and a third sold 100,000 in its first week. In a little over a year, she had shot up from the ruck of the second-stringers to rank as No. 1 popular songstress...
This was the environment that produced George Patton, a fine, slashing tactician but who thought the struggle between Nazis and anti-Nazis was just like a lot of Democrats and Republicans. Yet a clutch of wiser men rose from this ruck and were ready when World War II demanded them. These were men who, in the between-the-wars years, improved their hours at staff and command schools; while junior officers, they were spotted and ticketed for bigger jobs. The Army school system produced a gifted and acute coalition leader, Ike Eisenhower; it produced Bradley, MacArthur, and other strategists...
...majority, Juan Peron this veek won a second six-year term as Argentina's President. With 90% of the ballots counted, he had 4,000,000 votes; his nearest rival, Radical Ricardo Balbin, had 2,100,000 and six other candidates trailed ar back in the ruck...