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Whoever started the notion that because a thing is natural, it's necessarily painless . . . When D-day arrives this May for my next baby, I'll be glad of a little anesthesia after I've come to the end of my rope with Read's "breathing and relaxing...
...Before they disappeared, the children had learned to tell the Nazis lies about their father, so that Jackin got frequent floggings. When the Russians returned, Jackin became their prisoner. Last November, Jackin married a fellow prisoner, and in December the two arrived in the U.S., their belongings in a rope-tied bundle...
...began to pack blankets and Thermoses for a fishing trip. Jackin and Prowska became certain that the Simons were leaving to escape the secret police. Next morning, Prowska woke to find her husband gone. She stumbled into the garage and found his body, swinging from the rafters by the rope which had tied his bundle from Europe...
Concern for these and all other buildings and humanity that make up the University rests largely upon the shoulders of two men-Al Fraser and Bon Husk-who make up the University's Safety Patrol. These men supervised the recent rope-and-tackle practice which got nation-wide attention as the last word in liberal education...
Dangling freshmen on the end of a rope is all part of a day's work for Fraser and Husk. They have a job that never ends. One of their chief duties is to check the 1700 fire extinguishers that are placed strategically about the University...