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A few minutes later Mrs. Grant got the dreadful news. Grant had been caught, had admitted that he had planned to blow up the plane to collect $55,000 in insurance on his wife and children ($25,000 from the vending machines and $10,000 on each passenger, carried by...
Most of the sculptures selected by the Whitney were abstract concoctions of spikes, bumps, lumps, bars and bits of string, and most were dreadful. But Robert Howard's slim pear wood Semaphore was there to show how elegant three-dimensional abstractions can be. Peter Lipman-Wulf's Horse...
By the Velikovsky account, Venus was once a monstrous comet. About 1500 B.C., it swept in from space surrounded by a retinue of meteors. On its first pass, it missed the earth by a comet's eyelash, showering the surface with "stones from the sky." Dreadful things happened, of...
For a while, Lavern Roach seemed to be a fighter who knew when to quit. A husky, young ex-marine and Ring magazine's Rookie-of-the-Year in 1947, he had learned a dreadful lesson when he climbed into the ring against the late ex-Middleweight Champion Marcel...
It was the old, old story-the peace offensive to throw the Western world off its guard, cynical promises made to be broken, the indignant walkout when the negotiations got down to specifics. Or was it? Without any confidence at all that the U.S.S.R. could be trusted on anything, the...