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Medical examiner Joseph DiClerico said the marks may have been caused by driftwood. At first, the police accepted Mrs. Bridges' death as suicide, but later learned she was an excellent swimmer. Her husband and friends say she had no reason to commit suicide. Also, witnesses claim they saw a blue Cadillac convertible similar to Mrs. Bridges, with a man and woman in it, near the scene of the crime...
...Greatest Danger. "The issue today is decency in public life against indecency . . . Our greatest danger is not from invasion by foreign armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil. Or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior. These evils have defeated many nations many times in history...
Crime & Settlement. Next to murder, the worst crime a Guajiro Indian can commit is to call another Indian by his true name in Guajiro language; to get around this difficulty, all Indians have names in Spanish as well as in their own tongue. But any crime, even murder, can be squared by payment of goats, the accepted currency of the Guajiros...
...Aguilar's death, plus war reparations. The Blackbirds balked at so costly a fine. Both factions then agreed to stage a man-to-man combat between Murderer Velasquez and a Weasel named Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse came out of the fight wounded and sulking, and threatened to commit suicide to distress the Blackbirds. At this impasse, last week the Guajiros appealed to the Venezuelan government to negotiate a peace. Pending arbitration, an uneasy truce settled over the Guajira plains...
...Maria misreads the character of father & son. It never enters her head that so dull a man as the doctor could love her in selfless fashion. She thinks that son Raymond may bring her romance and a fresh start-until he attacks her crudely. She tries, vainly, to commit suicide. Years later, by now a hardened rake, Raymond thinks to himself: "Everything serves as fuel for passion: abstinence sharpens it, repletion strengthens it, virtue keeps it awake . . . It is a frantic and a horrible obsession...