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...prevent the arrests, blocked their path to the paddy wagons. The police, in turn, lashed out with their clubs. A girl cried, "They're killing me!" A boy, dragged out by his long locks, screamed, "Damn fascists!" One officer, his hand bleeding freely, said he had been bitten. The officers forced their way through some 400 jeering students outside the building. Three students were arrested for interfering with the police, one in a fist fight...
...agents, set designers, accountants and all others in the new, huge superstructure of human beings hovering over the frail product," CBS's Eric Sevareid was hard put to describe the rigors of putting on a news program. "The ultimate sensation," he finally decided, "is the feeling of being bitten to death by ducks...
...Every poet, in his kind," said Swift, "is bit by him that comes behind." Not only poets get bitten. The Hertz Corp., leading the U.S.'s 4,000-company auto-rental business with record sales of $274 million in 1965, is being at least nibbled by "We're only No. 2" Avis...
...Bitten Bettors. With Britain struggling to defeat inflation at home, modernize its outmoded industrial plant, and raise exports so as to end its balance-of-payments deficit, most of Callaghan's countrymen were braced for higher income, sales, tobacco and liquor taxes, and perhaps higher down payments on installment purchases. They got nothing of the sort...
...sight was stomach wrenching. Virtually no part of the girl's corpse was unmarked. Her fingernails had been broken upward; there were massive bruises on her temples; much of the skin on her face, chest, arms and legs had peeled from scalding water. Her lower lip had been bitten in two, presumably during her agony. The immediate cause of death was a blow on the skull. In all, Sylvia's body bore an estimated 150 burns, cuts, bruises and other lesions. Said one veteran of more than 35 years on the force: "In all my years of experience...