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...rope!" Schell snarls. He attaches one end of it to Segal, who is rapidly lowered through a rainspout to the level of the uppermost aperture. Thirty seconds later, the bars suddenly rise roof-ward, and when they settle back into their sockets Segal is on the inside looking out. Sixty seconds later still, he is hanging head down in a high vaulted chamber. Thirty feet below him lies a large glass case. In the case a dagger is displayed. And in the handle of the dagger glitter four of the finest emeralds ever mined, each one of them worth...
...burden of Tokyo's cab drivers, who have a hard time finding their way around and usually require written directions (in Japanese) to reach a destination. The reek of setting cement permeates Tokyo like a geisha's scent, and roadside cafes are mounted with plastic shields to ward off the dust stirred up by building...
When Lebanon tried to hold a presidential election in 1958, the tiny country exploded in civil war. More than a thousand Lebanese were slain, the Soviet Union rattled its rockets, and 14,000 U.S. marines landed to ward off a threatened Communist or Nasserite takeover. Yet last week, when the Lebanese tried another election, the event was as quiet and disciplined as a New England town meeting. After a vote in parliament, President Fuad Chehab peacefully surrendered his office to President-elect Charles Helou. Since Helou means "sweet" in Arabic, newspapers headlined that his inauguration would begin "a sweet...
...living. There are already more than 300 products available in aerosol cans, and their uses range from the routine to the recondite; they perfume rooms, freshen mattresses, renew golf balls, stiffen petticoats, bandage wounds, de-ice windshields, inflate flat tires, wax furniture, varnish oil paintings, scare off snakes and ward off pregnancies...
...leaders laid the violence to the wrongs of ghetto life. Paterson's Mayor Graves conceded that Negroes in his city had just complaints, but he argued angrily that the riots were not a legitimate expression of their grievances. Said Graves, as he slapped a ban on all Fourth Ward public assemblies except weddings and funerals: "This was just plain old lousy lawbreakers who are using their color to say they can't be arrested...