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...onetime Prohibition agent, and frail, bespectacled Leonard ("Relentless") Regan, 59, Croix de guerre War veteran, longtime Prohibition agent. Agent Kelly: "Where are you going with that package?" Mueller explains, asks why he is being followed. A scuffle takes place. Agent Kelly fells Mueller with something which witnesses later swear is a blackjack. After five days, Death comes to Meat Merchant Mueller...
...self-effacement, he not only demurely refused to reveal the source of his apparently lavish income but firmly refused to have his picture taken, politely smashing the cameras of photographers who tried it. Where chivalry is rare, he made no secret of his feeling that men should not swear when ladies were present. For strength, John Montague was marvelous. When a friend had a blowout, he held the rear end of the car up while he changed the tire. John Montague could drink whiskey by the quart but no one ever saw him drunk. Finally, he was a prodigious golfer...
President de Aguirre admitted the fall of Zamudio and Derio. suburban villages, cried, ''Bilbao never has been captured ... I swear to you it will not fall now." Back and forth over bloody Mount Santo Domingo on the northern shoulder of San Marina Ridge swept the hand-to-hand fighting. Five flights of German or Italian-built bombers poured death onto the hillsides. Four battalions of Rightists held the Santa Maria heights. Basque defenders, punished beyond belief reformed for their last desperate resistance to the grim, tightening circle with which Generalissimo Francisco Franco hoped finally to extinguish the proud...
Fishermen twelve miles off the Louisiana mainland in Caillou Bay are inclined to swear when they come in sight of what looks like a gigantic harbor buoy sticking up between two scows. A structure they think improper to the high seas, this is no buoy but one of several oil derricks erected in the bay by Texas Co. Called "deep-sea drilling," Texaco's operations are in water no deeper than 25 ft., but geophysical crews mapping off-shore contours often have to take dynamite soundings. The fishermen claim that any fish not killed or scared clean to Cuba...
Guernica, a village of 10,000 souls, has a small munitions factory and barracks on its outskirts. Guernica is also the traditional capital of the Basques. To this town Spanish sovereigns, including Ferdinand & Isabella, went to swear by the stump of an ancient oak tree to protect the ancient privileges of the Basque people. The tree of Guernica is prominent on the Basque flag. Basque deputies met biennially in their "Holy City" to legislate...