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...more than an hour," Beveraggi-Allende continued, "they applied one or more electric wires to different parts of my body, especially to the more sensitive organs. In order that there might not be any visible traces of this torture, I was covered with a blanket, and, while they were torturing me, music was played over a high powered loud-speaker to drown my screams of pain and despair...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenheimer jr., | Title: Student Victim Hits Peronist Torture | 4/10/1951 | See Source »

...Once a jeep, hustling around a sweeping curve, hit a Russian-made wooden-boxed mine; in a thundering flash the jeep sailed into a roadside paddy field. One man was led, stumbling, from the wreckage; another was laid face down on a litter and quietly covered with a blanket. At 6:30 p.m., Task Force Growdon linked up with the paratroopers. "Boy," said the men of the 187th, "we're sure glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: With Task Force Growdon | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

David followed this announcement by saying that he felt the prospect of blanket deferment for students in graduate schools was better now than ever before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business Faculty Votes Against Summer School | 3/29/1951 | See Source »

...burglary, Convict Holmes broke through in a grassy plot outside the prison walls, hopped over a 7-ft. picket fence, and disappeared into the surrounding city of Baltimore. Nobody missed him until next morning, when a guard checked a motionless lump on Holmes' bunk. It was a wadded blanket and a pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARYLAND: Under & Out | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...purpose of the Financial Aid Center is to aid students meet their money problems," Monro explained. Any increase in charges will be compensated for, wherever it seems necessary, although no blanket percentage hikes in scholarships can be promised, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarships Take Account Of Rent Hike | 2/21/1951 | See Source »

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