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...fourth consecutive meet Chris Pardee won three events, taking the broad jump in 22-31/2, the triple jump in 44-1, and the high jump at 6-9. Moving up steadily an inch at a time from 6-4 in the high jump, Pardee cleared 6-9 on his first try to break Kim Hill's old meet record of 6-81/2. He failed in three attempts at 6-10, however, clipping the bar twice with his trailing...
...October, after Sylvia had wet her bed, Mrs. B. ordered her to sleep thereafter in the basement on a pile of filthy rags, along with the family's two dogs. Later, according to Hobbs, Mrs. B. told Sylvia, "Now I'm going to brand you." A three-inch sewing needle was heated with matches and, Hobbs said, "Gertie started putting words on her, but she got sick and told me to finish it." Etched in two tiers of inch-high block letters across Sylvia's lower abdomen, the words said: "I'm a prostitute and proud...
...computer-controlled. At hotstrip mills, such as Inland Steel's at Indiana Harbor near Chicago, a serpent-like tongue of red-hot steel is shot at up to 44 m.p.h. through rollers that squeeze it out from 32 to 3,560 ft. and thin it from ten inches to less than one inch in four minutes. At the end of the line, a coiling machine rolls the steel spaghetti into a compact bundle. This automated process not only saves manpower, but speeds up output and controls its quality with a precision well beyond that of human operators...
Rope's most striking asset is Gert Frobe, as a pig-eyed book seller who peers through inch-thick spectacles and proves to be a barrel of rare old felon in the very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide...
Hours of Decision. The operation began at 7:40 a.m. With a ten-inch incision across his chest, DeRudder was hooked up to a heart-lung machine. And then, as five cameras recorded every step, the surgeons opened his left auricle. They replaced the diseased valve, but even this promised little. The left ventricle, the main pumping chamber, which does more than half the heart's work, was too badly diseased. Standing ready in the operating room was a team of doctors and engineers with the one device that might help: a "half-heart" to assist the left ventricle...