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...social order that he has permitted to be erected around him." In a special sense, this is what the honored, respectably liberal Goethe did when he committed his rebelliousness to paper. But man in the mass, who does not have such comfortable literary outlets, can "become transformed into storm trooper, Blackshirt, NKVD inquisitor, guard on the long march from Corregidor, or burner of the fiery cross...
...Republican primary, four Republicans vied for the privilege of trying to stop the swelling tide of Governor Williams' popularity and power. The winner: Donald S. (for Sparling) Leonard, 51, a state trooper who rose to be state police commissioner, a post he resigned two years ago to run unsuccessfully for the Republican senatorial nomination. Years ago, Trooper Leonard escorted governors' cars and decided that even a policeman could be governor. When he broke his back in a motorcycle accident while chasing a speeder, he used his convalescence to attend law school. Known as an honest...
...Heydrich, according to Hoettl, who worked out the plans for the mass extermination of the Jews and for the stringent Nazi subjugation of Czechoslovakia.* It was Heydrich who planted the idea in Hitler's mind that his old party comrade, Ernst Roehm, was plotting a storm-trooper revolt, and Heydrich himself, says Hoettl, made up the lists of the hundreds who were done away with on June 30, 1934, the "night of the long knives." If Hoettl can be believed, Heydrich achieved his masterpiece when he painstakingly forged a correspondence suggesting that the brilliant chief military strategist...
...Highlanders (immortalized as "the thin red line"), and the brilliant and successful charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava. But these are as nothing in British eyes compared with the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, in which some 700 horsemen rode unprotestingly into what every trooper knew was a trap. As Tennyson hymned...
...battalion had killed 25 Mau Mau in a running fire fight, one wounded terrorist, lying on a stretcher, opened his eyes and said: "I am General Kago" (a major terrorist leader who last month planted the severed head of a British district officer in a maize patch). The African trooper guarding Kago simply said "Are you?", raised his rifle and shot General Kago dead...