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...coup, and General Velez ordered a final meeting at headquarters for the night of Sept. 23. That afternoon Reyes got a tipoff, frantically called an emergency meeting at home to warn his associates. But there was a double double-cross and the police sprang the trap then & there. The name of John Griffiths, onetime U.S. embassy worker, was tossed in to give the conspiracy some foreign color. He had once been friendly with Reyes...
...picked up a telephone and asked: "What have you got for me?" Up in the press box, armed with binoculars, an assistant coach gave him a G-2 fill-in (Sample: "Their ends are playing wide, so try a stop-and-go to pull them in, then pass. Trap the tackle on the left side of the line...
Shakespeare's Macbeth is a turbulent melodrama, full of spooky claptrap, but its central figure gives it the dignity of classic tragedy. Welles has kept the claptrap, but his Macbeth is no once-honorable soldier whose muddled aspirations trap him into a crime against himself (the murder of King Duncan, in the play, also destroys the murderer's ability to live with himself). Orson has robbed the play of tragic impact by substituting a conniving heel who kills as he climbs...
...Hankow, Liu sent one column from his major force hell-for-leather down around Sinyang to feel out the railway defenses along the line south of the city. If Liu could cut the rail line, he would have Sinyang encircled and more than 100,000 Nationalist troops in the trap. Besides, by cutting the line he could link with other Communist forces to the south and threaten the Yangtze Valley from Hankow to Ichang...
Even when amplified, the mosquito's love song is only faintly audible to the human ear. But to male mosquitoes it is apparently overwhelming. Dr. Kahn turned on his loudspeaker. A wave of excitement hummed through the swamp. On eager wings the males zoomed toward the trap. Like mariners wrecked by Lorelei's song, the male mosquitoes smacked against the electrified screen...