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...basement room, known as the "slave-quarters," uncovered by workmen in the forties, presents its own tantalizing remnants of the past. A stark metal bed and a small bureau bearing an old photograph of a dairy cow still remain. Workmen originally found rotting drapes about the room and a carpet in much the same shape. The drama behind it all remains ambiguous...
Emperor Hirohito and other members of the royal family greeted Garcia, his wife and party of 22 on a red carpet at Tokyo airport, to the thunder of a 21-gun salute. For the next five days the Garcias, who like to live well both at home and abroad, were treated like royalty. Stung by criticism of her taste for jewelry and the corruption in her husband's regime (TIME, April 21), Mrs. Garcia wore her jewels only twice...
Bowles continued that both parties, moreover, have "taken too many things for granted" and "swept a lot under the carpet." For instance, the U.S. has blindly held to its "strictly European policy," even though Russia has steadily been gaining control of Asia and Africa...
...more vital than a letter-proceed calmly with their preparations, and the camera dispassionately watches every lethal detail. Gravely they draw on their rubber gloves. Delicately they decant the sulfuric acid. Tidily they bundle the little white eggs of cyanide into a sack of gauze. Politely they unroll the carpet from the cell door to the gas chamber. And so it goes, on and on and on, for almost 40 minutes-right to the bitter...
Destroyer Escort. In Claremore, Okla., two bootleggers transporting 96 gal. of whisky in their 1958 car were caught despite 1) a carpet tack dispenser between the rear wheels, 2) a trap door designed to dump 10 Ibs. of tacks on the road in deeper emergencies, and 3) a pressurized oil tank that produced a thick smoke screen from the exhaust...