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...twelve times" with a club. Another white prisoner testified that on another occasion the sheriff caught Daniel "hollering out a window," clubbed him "three or four times." Respected Dr. Maubry McMillan, summoned at midnight to treat the stricken Daniel in jail, said Treloar told him: "I had to tap him on the head." Another physician testified that Daniel died nine days later of a brain hemorrhage...
Stuffed Pockets. The fact is that Jimmy can take care of his own troubles. Acquitted fortnight ago by a Manhattan federal court of charges that he conspired to tap the telephones of his fellow Teamster executives, Tough Guy Hoffa is gaining new strength day by day. Teamster membership is up (to more than 1,500,000), and Hoffa is setting up deals right and left with A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, such as the brewery workers, butchers and carpenters, the effect of which is to undermine the strength of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. He even has in mind calling a new Teamster convention...
...Depends greatly on season and weather. Early spring and fall-walks, looking for deer, birds and flowers. Tree surgery, fertilizing, etc. In early spring, tap maples for syrup. Cut down dead trees, sawing and chopping. Target practice with .22 rifle . . . Trips to fishermen's harbor, checking on supplies in stone house, and buying trout or whitefish from commercial fishermen. Clean black bass, perch or rock bass we have caught. Pick wild strawberries, raspberries or bilberries, according to season. On rainy days F. often works on speeches, particularly before dinner. J. typewrites...
...specific products instead of whole lines, moved more and more products out of drug and department stores and into the mass-selling supermarkets. Today, more than one-fifth of the toilet preparations are sold in food stores. The industry sees no reason why it cannot use similar techniques to tap the new mass market of men's cosmetics (deodorants, hair tonics, etc.). So far, men have been reluctant to shop for their own toiletries, but the industry hopes to spur them to buy more avidly...
Everyone knows that Calcutta's water system is precariously close to collapse, but it has not been overhauled since 1926. Sewage invariably seeps into the drinking water, carrying possible death to every tap. In spite of a belated garbage-collecting campaign, piles of refuse still lie festering along Calcutta's winding "gullies," and on street after street, vendors of rotting food still hawk their fly-infested wares. In the teeming bus tees (slums), where people drink out of the same slimy ponds they wash in, the disease spreads relentlessly from hut to hut, bringing with it its agonizing...