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Cortege of Survivors. A helicopter carried the body to army headquarters at Ibagué, where 25,000 people passed by the litter to stare and make sure that Sangre Negra was really dead. The corpse was then helicoptered to four other mountain towns for display. At last, he was buried in an unmarked grave. Soldiers acted as pallbearers, and the survivors of the Totarito massacre marched behind in a bitter cortege...
...Honduran origin, were convicted under this law in Miami Beach in 1962. Each was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $150 fine. The defendants appealed to the Florida Supreme Court and were turned down in light of what Justice Millard Caldwell called "the sound rule of stare decisis" (following precedents) and "the well-written decision" of Pace. Let the U.S. Supreme Court decide, added Caldwell caustically, "if the newfound concept of 'social justice' has outdated 'the law of the land' as therein announced...
Guzzetti directs his actors with care and imagination, but occasionally the music drowns out the chorus and the pace could be faster; actors tend to stare at each other before speaking...
...private retinue of physicians. Irazú has rated such attentions since March 13, 1963, when it started spouting enormous clouds of hot ash and became the country's top menace and tourist attraction (TIME, Jan. 17). Sightseers can park near the lip of the crater and actually stare down into the billowing pit. Usually the prevailing wind blows the ash away from the spectators, but last week Irazú took antitourist action. With a sudden, violent explosion it lashed out at its admirers with a hail of ash and a shower of red-hot rocks that killed...
...British and American officers interned in Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra 202 went about filthy and half-naked, and one chap kept a glass eye stuck in his navel so he could stare unblinkingly at the guards. Life was desperately droll, but then Colonel Joseph Ryan arrives and the fun departs. As senior-officer-in-captivity, Ryan sets about shaping the men up for the day of their great escape. "I do expect military haircuts," he begins, and the troops get restless. "Von Ryan," one agile wit calls from the ranks, "you're in the wrong army...