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...policemen searched the apartment, gathered up a bundle of papers. Don Bernardo crammed a change of underwear and a blanket into a shabby satchel. To his distressed family (a wife and six children at home; four other children elsewhere), the old man said: "Don't worry about me. I will be back soon. I have committed no crimes." Then he was led off to jail...
...healthy baby can take care of himself. When Dr. Bowden lowered a blanket over the face of a sleeping infant only 26 days old, the child turned his face to the side. A six-weeks-old was put face down on a mattress, and turned his head freely from side to side in sleep. At 15 weeks, a baby wrapped in a blanket and put face down on a mattress turned on his back, pushed the blanket away from his face and contentedly sucked his thumb without once waking...
...assets total $10.8 billion-but it was on its way. In 1950's first two months, said Lincoln proudly, Metropolitan had sold more group insurance than in the entire previous year. A big reason: it had just signed a contract with Bethlehem Steel Corp. for a $325 million blanket policy covering 107,000 workers...
...could be irascible and harddriving. When U.S. Army Lieut. Sam Houston shepherded a delegation of Indians to his office-with himself togged out in loincloth and blanket-Calhoun gave him a tongue-lashing for looking "like a savage." Men felt in Calhoun a quality of excitement, of suppressed fire, of the dominating intellectual vitality that had been felt in Alexander Hamilton...
...Russia and Turkey a cold wave swept into the Middle East, bringing with it a blizzard that raged for 48 hours. Over the Dead Sea and the arid Negeb desert fell a dense blanket of snow, a phenomenon never before recorded in modern Middle East history. Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Cyprus were also hit by the storm, but the infant state of Israel was caught least prepared and suffered most...