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...Hanging is almost a sure sign of suicide; murder by hanging is rare. To determine whether a body was strung up after death to simulate suicide, Dr. Snyder looks for small black and blue marks on the neck: if present, they show that blood vessels were ruptured by the rope and the person was alive when hanged. Suicide by shooting also has a characteristic pattern: a suicide usually shoots himself in the temple, often misses the first two or three times (technically known as "hesitation shots"). Shooting oneself in the head is not the quickest or surest suicide method. Shooters...
Question: Are we at the end of our rope...
...fanatical art-lovers. Among recent U.S. art robberies, most sensational was the Brooklyn Museum's loss of ten old masters at one blow, in 1933. The Brooklyn thieves hid in the museum until late at night, skillfully lowered the paintings and themselves to the street by a rope. Four of the paintings were recovered, but the thieves were never found...
...patterns no one else seemed able to make. He showed the same rule-of-thumb genius when he went to work for Ford, translating Ford's production ideas into complex patterns of men & machines spilling out cars. When Ford dreamed of an activated production line, Sorensen tied a rope to a chassis, pulled it through the plant to see how the idea would work. Harddriving, brusque, he had little patience with underlings. One day a foundry foreman said he did not think he could turn out the 2,000 engine blocks a day that Sorensen wanted. Snapped Sorensen: "Then...
...King (now the Navy's top man), had to make and mesh their own rules. Navy gun crews had to be taught how to fire at beaches instead of at ships; marines had to learn how to scamper down rope cargo nets, what to do once they had waded ashore. They learned the tedious but vital facts of combat loading...