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Next morning two young farmers found Hill's body, face downward in the sandy Georgia roadside, near Big Sandy Creek. He had been shot through the head and body. Roused, Sheriff Hatcher was amazed: "I thought, could it be they'd come and got my prisoner? I ran upstairs and sure enough, Hill was gone...
...could be further from the truth: the pinball machine is a metaphysical microcosm. It reflects, in miniature, the unchanging processes, the limitations which define man's Free Will as well as his victimization by circumstance. First of all, it demonstrates Necessity; there is a magnet, ever drawing the ball downward to let it finally rest in its groove, until it is again called upon to begin its course anew. There is Free Will when the movement of the ball fortuitously heads toward one of the flippers and is hurled back; or when the machine is skillfully struck to better...
...mosquitoes, though closely studied, are still a dark mystery. The males of a few species take their mates where they find them, just like less subtle insects. Among the Opifex fuscus of New Zealand, the males like their females young. They skim along the surface of stagnant water, watching downward intently and sometimes thrusting their heads below the surface. They are looking for female pupae about to become adult. When a pupa breaks the surface, the male tears open the pupa case and mates with the still-soft imago before it has fully emerged...
...wedding to Aly Khan is set for May 27, got full approval and a few thoughtful suggestions from Couturier Jacques Fath. "If I were Rita," he mused, "I would be married in white . . . white crepe with the panels in the skirt and the decolletage like this . . ." He gestured sweepingly downward. "I always make the deep décolletage for Rita," he explained, "because she has a strong bosom. It minimizes it, but one can see very clearly still that it is there...
...price-fixing powers down the hatch. Unless the decision was reversed, there would soon be a wave of price-cutting all over the state. In July, 29 million gallons of aged whisky laid down right after VE-day would roll on to the market, ready to help the downward push...