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...following instructions, which I thought were instructions on the night of the riot that were not carried out," he said at a City Hall press conference. "I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting." As for young looters, Daley favored the use of Chemical Mace as "safer." Rapping his top cop, James B. Conlisk Jr., for failing to apply "deadly force...
Hunt is an emotional arsonist who starts fires in others simply to watch them burn. Semple becomes his natural prey. Hunt constantly involves him in schoolyard beatings without ever fighting himself. He goads Semple into cramming a billiard ball into his mouth, dislocating his jaw. Finally Hunt taunts him into a shed where Hunt's own girl lies, ready to seduce him. Semple finds the confrontation so frightening that he loses all hold on rationality, murders the girl, and is committed as criminally insane...
Computerized Flames. The scientists are also learning more about the habits of nature's arsonist, the lightning stroke. Their research tools include sensors for detecting electric-field charges, photoelectric devices for measuring luminosity, photographs and recordings of thunder. From studies of some 3,000 cloud-to-ground lightning flashes, two apparent patterns emerged: the number of lightning discharges from storm clouds seeded with silver iodide was from 32% to 38% less than from unseeded storms. One type of discharge, which lingers on the ground for a relatively long period of time (about one-fifth of a second)-appeared...
...small and unpromising country practice. First day on the job, he begins to implement his own theory of medicine. Healthy people are sick people who don't know it. One patient after another marches into his office, and with about as much trouble as it takes to persuade an arsonist to set a fire, Dr. Knock convinces each one that he is a near-invalid. Within weeks, the doctor has half the town in bed and a fortune in fees...
...Eisenhower, 76, finally got around to reviewing the 65 oil paintings that make up part of an exhibit at New York's Gallery of Modern Art called "The Memorable Eisenhower Years," which opened last month while Ike was briefly hospitalized. If some of his paintings brought out the arsonist in him, at least they were all genuine-which was more than could be said for a prominently displayed cadet uniform that he was supposed to have worn at West Point. Said Ike after one glance: "This is absolutely false-a replica...