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...jail cell in Poona last week squatted India's most famous man, the wizened little brown man with the big-eared, big-eyed face of a bespectacled lemur: the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. For four months he had been out of the news, drinking goat's milk, spinning cotton on his charkha, brooding as ever on the woes of India's Pariah Untouchables. Inside the bare parched skull "a tempest was raging." Finally, "the voice became insistent and said, 'Why don't you do it?' I resisted but in vain.'' Last week...
...patiently waited in the sumptuous laboratory. Why the nurses and docses and doctors were peering through glass covered interstices into an immense box in the middle of the room the Vagabond furtively inquired. A mass of almond hair whispered that they were waiting for the reaction. Within the cubic cell were two poles placed upright and a sobbing boy sitting on the floor. The muscles of his cheeks contracted and relaxed spasmodically; his legs twitched. Dequuro, the god who warned the people of Ponguelano, on more serious occasions, had purposely neglected the sick and the healers until the last moment...
...cameras. Every clear night a group goes from Cambridge to Oak Ridge to take photographs because the conditions of light and atmosphere there are superior to those surrounding Cambridge. During the past week cloudy conditions have made these observations difficult. The 24 inch instrument is now testing a photoelectric cell that will be used in measuring the luminosity of faint stars. This is also the instrument that will open the World's Fair in case it is cloudy at the Lick Observatory on June...
...hiding explosives in their home. Letting the Negroes shoot them down was perfectly legal under Cuba's ingenious ley de fuga (law of flight) which allows police -including the Porra-to kill prisoners "attempting to escape." Reports quickly circulated that Father Valdes Leon had committed suicide in his cell. This was denied by Prison Supervisor Ambrosio Diaz Galup...
...Gothic Vaulting of the Vagabond's narrow cell grew dim in the dusk of the late afternoon. Outside the rain drizzled down, blanket upon blanket, showing the streets below a black ribbon in which closely wrapped figures hastened under the shuddering arcs to the bright shelter of heated chambers. Through the racing, crowding thunderheads above, there still broke a few dull rays of yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern...