Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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India is the world's richest market for smugglers. One man who took a fling at reaping some of those riches sat last week in a maximum-security cell in Bombay's city prison. He is Daniel H. Walcott, 39, a broad-shouldered, persuasive Texan whose profile is known to readers of Interpol circulars the world over. Pilot and swashbuckler, he operates under at least four aliases and has been charged in half a dozen countries with a variety of violations, from running an illegal transatlantic passenger airline to swindling and espionage. Says an Interpol official: "Mr. Walcott...
Greene has taken his readers there, or somewhere very like it, many times before. In The Power and the Glory, it was the Mexican jail cell that swallowed up the whisky priest. In A Burnt-Out Case, it was the jungle leper colony that drew Querry, the architect who has lost the very capacity to feel. In Brighton Rock, it was that violent urban netherworld where hopelessness is almost a beatitude...
...avenge their losses, Indian officers persuaded the Nawab to confine his prisoners in the Black Hole, a stone brig precisely 18 ft. long and 14 ft. 10 in. wide, ventilated by two small barred embrasures and designed to accommodate three or four disciplinary cases at a time. Normally, the cell was stinking hot, but when 145 men and one woman were pounded into it by rifle butts, the air became noxious with excremental exhalations, and the temperature rose so rapidly that within an hour at least 50 men had roasted to death in the infernal oven. They died where they...
Perner's work disposes of a theory that the high stresses of shrinkage damage some cell membranes, which are somehow repaired when the cell returns to normal activity. His photographs show that during anabiosis membranes contract in intricate folds within the shrunken cell...
...fact that thousands of dhoti-clad Indians lay down across roads and railroads, that hundreds of U.S. citizens, white and black, would be flung into Alabama jails. He was content to enunciate a principle rather than pursue a practice-he never did go back to the uncomfortable jail cell...