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...strike had cost 300 injured, three dead. The cost to the Belgian economy had been $150 million irrevocably lost, with an additional $80 million recoverable if factories worked overtime to make up for lost production. In general, Belgians were bone-weary, and grateful that things had not turned out worse. Expectation was that tenacious Premier Gaston Eyskens would bull his troublesome Loi Unique through Parliament, then quickly call for a snap election. Although Socialists allowed privately that they had no hope of winning the election, they were content with the indirect assurances given by Social Christian (Catholic) Boss...
...people who usually commit it; of chronic lung disease; in New York City. A onetime Pinkerton agent who hung on to his job only because of the literary quality of his reports, Hammett contracted TB while an ambulance driver during World War I and, while convalescing, perfected a bone-clean prose style perfectly suited to a brutal world of crime in which private cops were as tough and cynical as crooks. Success led inevitably to Hollywood, where, after creating The Thin Man, he doctored scripts, became a leader of the left-wing coterie. In 1951 he served six months...
...weeks Goff measured and photographed every piece of bone, analyzing each for age, structure, strength. Many bones were missing, but the rest clearly belonged to a male approximately 5 ft. 8 in. tall, who had a large head, suffered from arthritis, and died between the ages of 55 and 60, "probably of 'heart failure.' The ruggedness of the remains," says Goff, "indicates a muscular, vigorous male." The man also limped, had probably been wounded. When Goff found a lead ball in the bone dust, he set out to prove that Columbus had been wounded. In Madrid he verified...
...present my theory cannot be disproved," says Dr. Goff. "But to be universally accepted one more test must be undertaken." This is to test the dried bone blood of each group, compare the findings. But to do it, Dr. Goff needs permission from Spain's Francisco Franco, who so far has failed to show his share of curiosity in the 450-year-old enigma...
Released in the U.S. less than a year after The Cranes Are Flying (TIME, Feb. 22, 1960), another Soviet film of bone-jarring energy and independent spirit, Ballad suggests that a New Wave may just possibly be rising in Russian cinema. Cranes made some mild but definite criticisms of the Communist society; Ballad simply ignores it, as though it were not there...