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...part of London, between the Thames and St. Paul's Cathedral, is a rubble-littered hole where a 14-story office building will soon rise. Since that part of London stands on many layers of history, Archaeologist William Grimes of the London Museum got permission to dig a trench to see what lay deeper down...
Christ as a Corporal. This is the fable: in the last year of the war, 1918, a French infantry regiment of General Gragnon's crack division is ordered to attack the German line. Officers and noncoms leap from the trench on signal, but the men mutiny and refuse to attack. Gragnon, a dedicated soldier and a good general, goes to the commander in chief and demands that the entire regiment be executed. But odd things have been happening all along the Western front. For one thing, the Germans seem to know about the mutiny in advance, yet fail...
...vacation a few days later, he went to Santa Fe and told Anthropologist Fred Wendorf of the Museum of New Mexico about his bones and points. Dr. Wendorf was so enthusiastic that Glasscock gave him the whole collection. Soon Wendorf and a group of learned colleagues were digging a trench at the Midland site. They found a few more bone fragments, and six months later, in a full-dress expedition, found a selection of ice-age animals, most of which were probably extinct before the period of Folsom man. It looked as if both human and animal bones had come...
From a crumbling French trench, 2nd Lieut. Clifton Bledsoe Gates reported, during 1918's battle of Soissons: "I have only two men left out of my company and 20 out of other companies. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here, as we are swept by machine-gun fire and a constant artillery barrage is upon us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." He was hit by a bullet in the shoulder and by a shell fragment in the knee; most...
...nearly midnight when a fast-moving, youthful figure muffled in a trench coat bounced up the steps and rang the doorbell at Joe McCarthy's brightly lighted house on Capitol Hill. The door opened to admit Roy Cohn, 27, the chief counsel of McCarthy's Permanent Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. A few moments later, Cohn emerged with McCarthy, and the two talked in low tones as they walked Joe's five-month-old Doberman pinscher up and down C Street...