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...After more failures with small Vaudeville routines, Disney began to produce cartoons and eventually came up with his first star, Mickey Mouse, designed not by Disney, but by his head cartoonist, Ub Iwerks. The development of more sophisticated cameras allowed Disney to create full length animated features: Fantasia, the Sill Symphonies, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which all had their roots in the primitive silent animation which Disney had seen when younger. There is no amazing story surrounding the creation of Mickey Mouse, or any other of the menagerie. With typical matter of factness, Disney explained...
...sizes and generally emit one of three kinds of waves: ultrasonic, light and microwave. When anything disturbs the waves given out by the sensors, the circuit is broken and the alarm is tripped. The sensors can be placed anywhere: in an electric socket, on a tabletop, at a window sill, under a door mat, and even in special wires of a flyscreen...
...them, Stanley Gertner, a former Marine master sergeant: "If this man is guilty, he is guilty for the same thing we did. We shot up villages under orders and killed countless civilians." Cushing police put the two men in jail and then telephoned the provost marshal at Fort Sill, who explained that he had no jurisdiction; both men were released. Retired Major General Raymond Hufft, a much-decorated Louisianan, said that at the time he led his battalion across the Rhine in World War II he gave orders to shoot anything that moved. "If Germany had won," he said...
...could have knowledge of the death, the author has reconstructed certain essentials. There was extreme disorder in both Masaryk's bedroom and bathroom-pillows on the bathroom floor and in the dry tub, glass bottles from the medicine chest ground under foot, a smear of excrement on the sill. Strangely, Masaryk had gone out the bathroom window even though it was much smaller than the one in the bedroom and very awkward to reach...
...findings were dismissed as ludicrous by U.S. Journalist Claire Sterling, who recently completed a book on the Masaryk affair. "There is overwhelming evidence to rule out accidental death," she said. She cited signs of a struggle in the room, and smears of excrement on the window sill and Masaryk's body, suggesting that he might have been dead or gravely injured before his fall. Nonetheless, the attorney general's office ruled that "the possibility of murder can be excluded." It also ruled out suicide, quoting psychiatrists as saying that two weeks under Communism was probably not enough...