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...this austere room last week lived an austere old man consumed by illness and by strange fires of faith. His body was so frail that it seemed as if a gust of wind could blow it over; his face was sallow and flabby, his eyes were watery, his hands trembled. Yet in this fragile frame is a will tougher than the rock of the Elburz Mountains and more inflammable than the oil of Abadan. A month ago, scarcely anyone in the West had ever heard of Mohammed Mossadeq; by last week, what he said and did could powerfully affect...
...Sallow Julius Rosenberg and his wife were led away. Later, in their adjoining cells, the Rosenbergs sang to each other: her choice was Puccini's One Fine Day, his The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...jury that judged them spent seven hours and 42 minutes deliberating the sordid record of how the A-bomb-and such other secrets as the proximity fuse-were handed over to the Kremlin. To help them decide, the jurors had the testimony of sallow, penitent Harry Gold, a Philadelphia biochemist now serving 30 years because he was a courier for the atomic spy ring, and David Greenglass, a former Los Alamos technician who testified not only to his own but also to his sister's and his wife's parts in the espionage operations...
...Slight, sallow Valdo Magnani, 38, college-trained in economics and philosophy, had joined the party in 1936, fought in Fascist Italy's army (as an artillery captain) until Mussolini's downfall, then switched to the partisan anti-Fascist forces. In 1946 he emerged as Reggio Emilia's ace Communist organizer. Militant, tireless, persuasive, he gained 10,000 new party members for his province in the past two years, a time of dwindling ranks for Italian Communism in general. In 1948 he was handily elected to the national Chamber of Deputies...
Nobody ever called Joseph Senatore a typical American boy. Joe is skinny and his shoulders are narrow; his sharp, wise-guy face is sallow and pimply. While other kids were joining the Boy Scouts, Joe was exploring back alleys and hanging around street corners. While other youngsters were preparing for college, Joe was serving time on a robbery...