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...victim had not told the airline that he had been in a tubercular clinic and under treatment by pneumothorax (collapsed lung). His death was due to a simple law of physics: as atmospheric pressure decreased, the air in his chest cavity expanded to a volume that swiftly caused fatal complications...
Sardonic New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson last week took advantage of Moscow's new freedom from censorship to get a few things about Russia off his chest. He noted the "fatuous satisfaction" in the Russian press over Soviet Russia's soccer victory in England (TIME, Nov. 26), and quoted a sample from the Moscow News: "Would it not, perhaps, be well to get to know us better? Better knowledge of us might, perhaps, help foreign observers understand other things about us besides sports...
...wolf" until she had got back every penny Leicester owed her. But she kept a soft spot in her heart for her old favorite. On the note that the dying man had sent her from the country, she wrote, "His last letter," and laid it away in a chest beside...
...pink dress. She turned toward the five U.S. generals sitting as commissioners, and showed them her left arm. There were ten scars. There were four more on her right arm. She stood up and pulled her dress up above her brown bloomers, showing 18 scars on her chest and stomach, one on her back. The marks of five wounds showed on her legs...
Atomic bombs are small enough to be hidden inside "a grand piano, a chest of drawers, of sofa," asserted Ridenour. The spying and intelligence work needed to prevent the erection of such mines in our cities would "render everyday peaceful life all but intolerable...