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...years. But, even in his last hours of power, Mohammed Mossadegh cost the nation dear: 300 died that day. Dressed in silk pajamas, Mossadegh surrendered 24 hours later to General Zahedi, was temporarily imprisoned in the luxurious Teheran Officers' Club and then carted off to a common jail cell...
From the tiers of Cell Block D in Mexico's Federal District Penitentiary one morning last week, 250 of the country's toughest thugs and cutthroats gawked like sentimental sidewalk watchers at the ceremony in their prison courtyard. Pretty Maria de Jesus Torres Martinez, 28, had come there to be married to a frog-faced murderer named Jose Ortiz Munoz, called El Sapo (The Bullfrog) by his fellow inmates. Demure in a green frock and red shoes, Maria de Jesus mooned over El Sapo, natty in a clean striped uniform, as he listened with rapt attention...
...Congressman José Torrero got into a pistol duel, with the usual result-El Sapo killed his adversary. An unsympathetic judge gave El Sapo 18 years in the Black Palace of Lecumberri, as the district pen is called. After a period of inactivity, he killed an annoying cell mate two years ago, did a stretch in solitary confinement...
...Edible Cell. The micoscopic algae used in the experiments have none of these failings. They have only one part, their single cell, and it is packed with green, foodmaking chlorophyll. It also stores the food it makes, and it reproduces by splitting in two every twelve hours or so. A culture of algae is always at the height of its growing season. The whole plant is edible, and since it grows under water, it never suffers from wind, hail or frost. It can be fed with nutrients (chiefly carbon dioxide and combined nitrogen) by the simple method of dissolving them...
...joined the Los Alamos project as an "administrative aide," later became the project's historian, with access to its secrets. Hawkins also testified that another member of the project, Frank Oppenheimer. brother of Physicist J. Robert, had been a chairman of a California Communist cell...