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...hallucinatory. Two men are taking an overnight train to Paris. One tells the other in a friendly way that he is a cannibal and intends to eat his companion as soon as he falls asleep. Ridiculous, naturally. No, really, the first man is quite serious. He opens a small satchel and brings out a salt shaker and tools for dismembering a body...
...called cease-fire ended at midnight, two squads of Viet Cong rushed out of the high grass near Camp Holloway's 4,200-ft. airstrip, cut through a double apron of barbed wire without being seen by guards, began blowing up parked helicopters and light reconnaissance planes with satchel charges. At the same time, guerrillas hiding in a hamlet 1,000 yds. from the camp poured 55 rounds from 81-mm. mortars smack into the compound where 400 U.S. advisers lived. They were right on target. Fifty-two billets were damaged, including some totally destroyed. In one, Cartoonist Bill...
...Satchel of Money. Goulart's real wealth may never be known. The investigators hesitate even to make an estimate. They do know that on the night of the revolution, several large canvas bags were loaded into the plane that flew him south from Brasilia. The contents of at least one of the bags was U.S. currency...
...stuffed with attractive trinkets, they began to fill their pockets. Some hid the loot in the rubble. Others, who had watched their comrades cache the goodies, stole into the rubble, removed what hidden jewels they could find, and carried them home. One man put $200,000 worth into a satchel and took it to his wife. Another gathered $15,000 worth, sped to his farm in Gettysburg, Pa., just a mile or so from Dwight Eisenhower's place, and buried it there...
When James Smith McDonnell decided in 1939 at the age of 40 to start his own planemaking company, scoffers told him he was foolish because the aircraft industry was "overcrowded." He quit as chief project engineer for the Martin Co. and, with $135,000 in loans and a satchel full of his designs, opened his own twelve-man shop at the St. Louis airport. Today McDonnell Aircraft Corp., maker of a celebrated string of fighter planes and the Mercury and Gemini space capsules, is worth $149 million. In the sharply competitive aerospace business, where losses come easily, McDonnell...