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...case of many "middleaged or elderly" customers at the Mews, Vickie testified, she stripped down to her underwear and high-heeled shoes and lashed them with a cane or a horsewhip. The market price for that, she said matter-of-factly, "was ?1 [$2.80] a stroke...
Last week, his ammunition running low, Barbot was about to muster his mob for an all-or-nothing attack on Duvalier. He and his brother Harry, 45, were hiding in a straw hut at the edge of a sugar-cane field, six miles north of Port-au-Prince. But this time someone tipped off Duvalier. A swarm of government goons surrounded the hut and set fire to the field. The Barbot brothers and three henchmen stumbled out through the smoke and flames-smack into a hail of bullets...
...hours later, radios blared the government version: the Barbots were caught setting fire to a cane field outside Port-au-Prince and were killed resisting arrest. Pictures of the riddled bodies were passed out to newspapers. But many superstitious Haitians believe that Clement Barbot lives on, and black dogs on the street draw fearful sidelong glances...
...face and blistered mouth remained painful for more than a week, and she had to be content with a liquid diet and baby foods. What makes this case important, say Drs. George Drach and Walter H. Maloney in the A.M.A. Journal, is that Dieffenbachia-it is also called dumb cane and mother-in-law plant-is such a common house plant that anybody could easily be accidentally poisoned by it. A child who chewed it would become seriously ill, and the effects might be fatal if he swallowed it. For dumbcane stalks contain calcium oxalate, which causes burns similar...
Topsy-Turvy Recollections. Ved Mehta's approach is refreshingly direct. Although he has been blind since the age of three, he courageously taught himself to navigate the world without benefit of cane or canine, studied at Pomona College and Oxford. Stopping off in London recently, and finding philosophers bickering and historians snicker-sneering at each other from behind the learned journals, he resolved to talk to them all and see what the fuss was about...