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...Mortem. "Easing the passing of a dying person is not all that wicked," the doctor, according to police, had said at his arrest. "She wanted to die." But in making his case against the owlish physician, who sat quietly in dock making notes for his own lawyer on a pad, Prosecutor Melford Stevenson got permission from the presiding magistrate "to deal with the deaths of two other patients of Dr. Adams who died in circumstances which the Crown says exhibit similarity to the death of Mrs. Morrell." These two were wealthy Alfred John Hul-lett, 71, and his wife, Gertrude...
...needed a vacation. During the Middle East and Hungarian crises he had developed a nervous habit of awakening at 4 or 4:30 a.m. to jot down on a scratch pad the ideas that were flickering through his mind. When he first arrived in Augusta the wind was chilly, the skies were grey, and his golf score-usually a good thermometer of his physical and mental tone -was infuriatingly high. He suddenly realized that he was very tired, and planned a careful schedule to replenish his strength. By last week the clouds had cleared, the temperature rose into...
...every aspect of what he is talking on and then he covers it with ease, wit, and stylistic brilliance," a friend said. Before a Faculty meeting or in his paper-filled office, he listens to a speaker abstractly, ruling perfectly straight lines at close intervals on a scratch pad. And generally his explication is as precise as his doodling. "For the first time that I can remember," a senior professor said "the details of appropriations are carefully and understandably explained in Faculty meetings...
...testing will be done at the Air Force range at Cape Canaveral, Fla., where rockets bigger than the satellite get routine tests. A special launching pad has been built, and a special concrete blockhouse will shelter observers and testing crew. A greenish-colored gantry has been brought from White Sands Proving Ground to support the pencil-thin vehicle before it roars off toward space. Scientists gathering for the tests claim to be more worried about the sky-high cost of Florida living than about the performance of their hardware. In spite of many objections, the tests will be as secret...
...consult the powerful interests who control you before you choose your Cabinet?" Said Menzies: "Naturally. But, young man, please keep my wife's name out of this." During weighty Commonwealth talks in London in 1952 on how to shore up the pound sterling, he scrawled on his doodle pad...