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...cattle rancher, sat chatting with her partner, Kitty Hesselburger. There was a noise at the door, a shout, and a gang of Mau Mau thugs, led by the ranch's male cook, burst into the living room, brandishing panga knives. One man seized Mrs. Hesselburger by the throat, bent her across a chair; the rest set upon Mrs. Raynes-Simson, who grabbed her revolver, a handbag necessity for most Kenya white women these days, and blazed away. She shot two men dead, one of them the cook. Then, taking careful aim, Mrs. Raynes-Simson killed...
...Every word was a joy." "La costanza tiranna del core detestiamo qual morbo crudele,"* he sang-and sucked in a deep breath to go on. In the same instant, off came the left wing of his mustache. Carried on the air stream, it disappeared down the tenor's throat...
...days later, Sriramulu came to the crisis. His eyes were sunken, his skin a ghastly pallor, and he was hiccuping continuously. His throat was so inflamed he was unable to swallow water and he vomited blood. One of the doctors at his bedside suggested that it was time to end the fast. Sriramulu had lost the power of speech, but he lifted his hand, slowly and unsteadily placed a finger on his lips in refusal. A few hours later he was dead...
...like to know more of what's happening," he said. "I think I'll drive out and have a look." "My friend, please don't," begged the other. But Ribes was determined. Two hours later, a body was found with head crushed, eyes gouged out, throat and trunk slashed and torn beyond recognition. From the tailor's label in the shreds of the suit, the body was identified as that of Louis Ribes. Two young cyclists who-had followed Ribes's car for safety suffered the same fate. The bodies of three more Frenchmen were...
...which had infuriated the colonial powers by voting for U.N. discussion of the case, infuriated both sides by refusing to tell where it stood. "We are keeping our mouth closed," explained a U.S. delegate, "because if we open it, we will get our teeth kicked down our throat by one side or the other." This week, however, the U.S. in effect came down on France's side, supporting a proposal which gingerly excludes any U.N. intervention in the dispute, simply calls on French and Tunisians to "continue negotiations on an urgent basis...