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With them he got a pair of magic spectacles to decipher the symbols. One look by anyone else, Joseph said, would mean instant death. After months of speaking from behind a blanket while awe-stricken neighbors took down his words, Joseph Smith produced a 275,000-word document which he called The Book of Mormon. Mark Twain, the great debunker of his day, later described it as "chloroform in print...
...would cost him $50 to move to the Punjab-and the meager amount he collects in fares barely pays for food on the black market. Besides, he was still paying off a $200 debt incurred when he had tried vainly to save the life of a typhoid-stricken...
Rescue. In Coos Bay, Ore., the Coast Guard cutter Bonham raced 250 miles out to sea, 250 miles back again with a very ill ship's cook believed stricken with appendicitis. Doctor's diagnosis: seasickness...
...year of armory drill and two weeks in summer camp, for three years; 5) enrollment in college R.O.T.C.s or in the Enlisted Reserve Corps at colleges, trade schools, etc., for courses in special techniques. The commission warned that the National Guard must be "far different" from the depleted, poverty-stricken organization it is today and must end its jurisdictional feud with the Organized Reserve...
...accident that ended in flaming death in a United Airlines DC-4 for all but six of its occupants. It was the worst airline accident in U.S. history-but there was a worse one before the sun had set again. Next evening a Florida-bound Eastern Airlines DC-4, stricken by structural failure, plunged out of a sunlit sky into a Maryland bog, and the lives of the 53 passengers and crew were snuffed out in the twinkling...