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...Shortly thereafter, TIME'S office telephones, which had been cut off in June on a thin technicality, were restored to service. However, something new had been added. Whenever you picked up a receiver, the racket of the wiretapping apparatus sounded like a pinball machine...
...five months, military police and civilians had hunted in vain for un flaco con ojos de loco (a thin man with crazy eyes). Just before the murder of Liberal Leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (TIME, April 19), the thin man had been seen talking with assassin Juan Roa Sierra. If the thin man could be found (Assassin Roa was battered to death), it might be possible to discover who was behind Gaitán's killing...
...Waterproof." Probably no less revolutionary-looking crowd ever assembled under Red banners. Watching the listless demonstrators, one could be sure that their incapacity for revolution was exceeded only by their disinterest in it. Their mood was as grey as the overcast sky above. When a thin drizzle of rain fell, hundreds ran for shelter. Cracked a German onlooker: "Ah! These revolutionaries are not waterproof!" As a mass they resembled nothing bolder than a crowd at a railroad station waiting for a late train. They stood in idle little groups, talking over personal, non-political problems: "Emmie, have you no idea...
Wine & Waltzes. Last spring in her 28th year a mysterious wound, two inches deep, opened up in Maria's lower right side, and slashes appeared on her thin wrists and feet. When these wounds began to bleed on Good Friday and on two subsequent Fridays, few doubted that they were actually the stigmata...
...Mihlan of the Erie Railroad. When he was carried into Cleveland's Charity Hospital on July 15, doctors thought that he had little chance of living: 70% of his body was burned. Erie Surgeons decided to try something new. They wrapped the patient in bandages made from paper-thin strips of aluminum foil, developed by Toronto's Dr. Alfred W. Farmer. It was the first time aluminum foil for burns had been used in the U.S., the first time it had ever been used for burns of the whole body...