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...brother and I were left alone in our cell until evening. Then cops came, doused us with buckets of ice-cold water, and went away again, leaving us soaked and shivering. A few hours later, they came back . . . They made us undress, and blindfolded us. I was taken to a basement room and interrogated about the dynamitings. When I denied that I was involved in any way, the interrogator slapped my face. Others beat me across the legs and back with what felt like stockings filled with sand ... I was bent over a small table and tied down. I heard...
...back my clothes. I was blindfolded again, led into another room, and placed in a spinning chair. They spun it until I vomited with nausea. Then I was knocked to the floor, beaten with a rubber hose and doused with ice water. After that they took me to a cell and left me alone...
Last week White Sands Proving Ground told of another method. Grenades (containers of brightly flashing explosive) are attached to the nose of a rocket. They are exploded automatically about every eight seconds. The time of the flash is recorded by a photoelectric cell on the rocket and by cameras on the ground. The sound of the explosion is picked up by microphones near the rocket's launching point. By measuring the time it takes for the sound of each burst to reach the ground, the scientists estimate the average temperature of the air through which the rocket has passed...
...lower bunk of Wanger's cell lay stone-faced Evan Charles Thomas, the warped railroad switchman who, with his .22 rifle, had murdered one woman, wounded four, and thus inspired the recent movie The Sniper (TIME, May 19). But Producer Wanger slept the sound sleep of a man who knew an ordeal was all but ended. Its climax had really come last December when Wanger fired a pistol bullet into the groin of Actors' Agent Jennings Lang, whom Wanger then accused of trying to break up his marriage with Actress Joan Bennett. After Wanger threw himself...
...towering county jail building and surrendered on his bond. At the booking desk he emptied his pockets, received an ill-fitting blue denim uniform to replace his elegant double-breasted grey flannel suit. Soon, reported a turnkey, No. 22487 was "sleeping like a baby" in the upper bunk of cell 10A2 on the twelfth floor. Hollywood Producer Walter (Stagecoach) Wanger, 57, a suave man with "no previous arrests," had begun what he called his "summer vacation...