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...Once, when soldiers of the Queen's Own Corps of Guides came upon some ancient reliefs, they decided to use them to decorate the fireplace of their mess hall at Mardan. As might have been expected, smoke begrimed the stones, so the ingenious Guides covered them with a coat of black shoe polish. Shoe blacking darkens some of them still...
...which they have long been arguing was recently extended to newspapers and radio stations in a Mississippi murder trial. The details of the case were particularly spicy: the defendant was a 20-year-old college student accused of killing his 31-year-old married mistress by wrapping a coat hanger around her neck. Given near-complete freedom of the courtroom by the presiding judge, newsmen tape-recorded testimony with equipment so sensitive that it could pick up the whispered conversations of the defense attorneys...
...bandit would send the boy to the passerby, and the boy would say, 'Hello, mister, give me back my watch . . .' Then the armed bandit would appear, and tell the passerby: 'Why do you bully the boy? Give him back his watch and pass over your coat...
...first stripped off the jacket by use of a protein-dissolving chemical. Then they treated the naked RNA with nitrous acid, which is known to affect the RNA's code-carrying bases. After the nitrous acid had. acted, the RNA was enabled to clothe itself in a new coat of protein. This made it a functioning virus again, and when it was injected into a tobacco plant, it multiplied in the plant's cells and caused a disease that was slightly different from normal tobacco mosaic...
...Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva. 39, a sensitive poet by inclination, a statesman by necessity. He is absolute ruler of a tiny kingdom in the high Himalayas, wedged between populous India and Chinese-controlled Tibet. Accompanied by handsome Queen Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, in blue sari and mink coat. King Mahendra moved stiffly through welcoming pomp, kept silent (though he speaks fluent English) during the limousine drive downtown with President Eisenhower...