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...Frenchwoman paid the supreme penalty for murder. French juries are notoriously tender with wives who murder their husbands, but Violette Nozières was no wife. A spoiled brat with a fondness for nightclubs and loose living, she succeeded, after many attempts, in poisoning her father, a railway engineer, and her mother. Then she turned on the gas to make the crime seem suicide...
...jammed with German ham actors and actresses, a creaking bus coughed and sputtered across Hanover last week amid dense fog toward the troupe's next one-night stand. ";Ich kann gar nichts sehen. I can't see a thing" grumbled the bus driver. Just then he crashed through a railway safety gate, jammed his bus on the tracks...
...years Bolshevik guards armed to the teeth have been turning back anyone trying to get into Russia from Rumania. To emphasize the wrath of the two nations at each other, the last connection between them, a railway bridge, was dynamited. In Soviet geographies Red moppets learn that the Rumanian province of Bessarabia ought to be, must be Russian. Punished is that Soviet child who does not draw Bessarabia as part of Russia, color it the same as the rest of the Soviet Union...
Bumping down the steep lava-baked slopes of Mt. Vesuvius one day last week, a tourist-laden car of the funicular railway jumped its cable, gathered speed, left the rails, crashed headlong into an electric power pole, killed a French honeymoon couple, an Italian guide, four others, injured nine...
...defense program of the Soviets in Eastern Siberia, industrial projects, strategic railway, settlement of veteran soldiers on the frontier, and the possible formation of a Turkey-Persia bloc on the Southern pathway to the Orient formed two other salients which Professor Hopper particularly stressed in his talk...