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...fact, something about the sight of automated soldiering seemed to provoke an irrepressible urge in passers-by to make the sentries convict themselves of being still human. Girls took to throwing their arms around the guards while chums snapped pictures to be sent home. Some sentries suffered the indignity of having toffee apples stuck on their bayonets; others found as they started off on their 25 paces that their shoelaces had been tied together. This summer has been especially galling: tourists have poked, tickled, thrown banana peels or ice-cream cups underfoot, sung out derisive marching orders, brazenly grabbed...
...uncontaminated in the laboratory, then use it to transmit the disease. It refused to grow, or grew for a few days and vanished. A major obstacle: the disease is hard to diagnose except in man. Still, some human subjects got the disease in experiments that dishearteningly failed to convict the virus as the cause...
...When FBI agents tracked him to his mother's Chicago home in September 1942, they found him rolled up in a carpet under her bed. He was in federal prison at Milan, Mich, for draft dodging until 1946, later made a play for recruits among ex-convicts. His New York leader, Malcolm X, once Malcolm Little, is an ex-convict who has been arrested for larceny in two states...
...long time had passed since he was the martyr "Convict 95" who set the crowds to screaming, "Up Dev! Up the Republic!" For one thing, he had insisted on tying to the presidential election "the Issue"-doing away with proportional representation, which, while giving minorities a voice in the Dail, tends to keep alive old animosities that should have long since become ancient history. "Get rid of the intrigous P.R.!" cried a member of Dev's Fianna Fail (Party of Destiny). "De Valera and Fianna Fail want dictatorship!" retorted the opposition Fine Gael (United Ireland) Party...
Trade School. In Hartford, Conn., denying any attempt to escape, Convict Charles Glover explained that he had tied bedsheets together because he wanted to learn how to braid hair...