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...determine their sex (the last pair of swimmerets on the male are hard, pointed, and hairless). She tells you how to kill them humanely. ("Using a sharp knife or lobster shears, cut straight down 1/2 inch into the back of the lobster, at the point where tail and chest join, thus severing the spinal cord and killing the lobster instantly.") For all who think that that's all there is to it, she adds disconcertingly, "To paralyze all muscle spasms, plunge the lobster head first into ... very hot water for 5 minutes, or until lobster is limp...
...Angeles County Sheriff Peter Pitchess reported that the dead man, an unidentified Chicano, had been shot in the head and chest by shotgun blasts. Deputy sheriffs called out to quell the disturbance had fired shotguns. The number of wounded could not be determined immediately...
LIKE most wars, the one in Indochina has bred an almost casual brutality. At Mien, a small town northeast of Phnom-Penh where bitter fighting raged two months ago, West German Photographer Dieter Ludwig was present when two Cambodian patrols returned from forays into chest-high rice fields. The first patrol brought in a North Vietnamese prisoner for interrogation (above); he talked freely after the second patrol arrived waving some grisly trophies-the severed heads of other North Vietnamese troops. Some of the Cambodians marked their victory by cutting the livers out of the enemy dead...
...soldier, a major who had been there since 1966, who evinced any enthusiasm for what he was doing. He looked like a soldier on leave in a June Allyson Korean War movie-crew cut, perfectly pressed uniform, shiny black shoes, braid on his shoulders and ribbons on his chest. He said things like "Chow will be at 1:00 sharp, men," and "When you receive your orders, proceed to your assignment, on the double." He was an anachronism, even there...
...Traverse City state hospital for mental patients. His mentally retarded son, John David Cronk, 26, had died. The hospital autopsy claimed ''acute pulmonary congestion." Dismayed, the Cronks ordered another autopsy by a private pathologist, Dr. Charles E. Black. His report was startling: death had resulted from severe chest and abdominal injuries, including contusions of the lungs, stomach and diaphragm, apparently caused by beatings. Three weeks later, Weekender published its own account of Cronk's death as well as a series of interviews revealing that beatings were not uncommon in Hall Six, a section for violent patients, where...