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After four months of tireless investigation, the law last week finally pointed its finger at the acid thrower who blinded Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME. April 16). The assailant, a 22-year-old hoodlum named Abraham Telvi, who got $1,000 for the brutal job, had already come to crude, ironic justice: he was the victim of a gangland murder triggered by his own hand. But the FBI seized two accomplices linked to labor rackets in New York's garment industry and put together this outline of the crime...
...concentrated sulphuric acid hit Riesel right across the eyes, but the fallout from the wide-mouthed bottle sent corrosive little splashes into Telvi's own face. With Miranti's help, the thug rushed for hiding to his girl friend's Manhattan apartment. There Telvi was visited by Joe Carlino, 43, a stocky ex-convict with manicured fingernails. It was Carlino. acting for an "undisclosed principal," who had made the "contract" for Telvi's job, supplied him with the acid, and collected...
...edema, normal sensitivity. Then the machine sorted the cards, rejecting those that did not match the patient's symptoms. It offered half a dozen as meeting all the requirements, e.g., congenital syphilis, result of an old injury or chemical burn-more likely from an alkali than an acid. From these, Paycha could make a careful diagnosis...
...fight severe burns, modern medicine has experimented with all kinds of remedies-tannic acid (now in some disrepute), bandaging, baths, skin grafting, diet, even hypnosis. But the victim of an extensive burn (more than 10% of the skin) is in most critical danger from loss of fluid and shock. The standard treatment for this has long been to administer either whole blood or blood plasma intravenously. Since plasma is often not available and since it often contains hepatitis virus, doctors have been looking for a simpler remedy. Last week a team of U.S. Public Health Service scientists announced that they...
...nothing; most of the rental costs will be met by the promoters of a commercial exhibit called "American Showcase." Delegates can get free shaves at the Ronson booth, pick up free samples of Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and, from the Norex division of Schenley Industries, Amitone, a relief for acid indigestion (common at conventions...