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...dream house against trespassers. Inside the pantry he set up a loaded .22-cal. pistol. Only the tip of the barrel protruded from the paneling, pointed at the level of a man's heart toward the pantry door. From the hidden trigger, the captain connected a piece of cord to the door handle and completed his booby trap...
Young Rosewall fought back through a fine last set. But now, for the first time in eleven tries at Wimbledon, Old Drob was running into luck. Low drives that hit the net cord dropped in for him, high lobs kicked up chalk on the baseline and his big service took on a wallaby's hop. With the score at 8-7, Drobny smacked across an ace on a second serve. The final point was an ace as well...
Plastic Surgeon Kiskadden urged his colleagues to warn parents of an equally potent but less obvious danger: the hollow-chamber type of appliance plug used with many vacuum cleaners, toasters, coffeepots and most irons. Even when the appliance is disconnected, the other end of the cord is often left plugged into the wall outlet. In eight years at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, he and Dr. Sanford R. Dietrich have seen 16 children, mostly under three, with severe electrical burns of the mouth. These, said Dr. Kiskadden, "are almost always caused by putting a live plug...
...Duke of Beaufort's houseparty was falling to pieces. Rain had kept the guests cooped up in Badminton Manor, champagne was running low, old friends were so bored with each other that they were reduced to a half-forgotten childhood game. Someone stretched a cord across one of the manor corridors, and, so the story goes, a couple of lackadaisical wine-bibbers discovered that they still had energy enough to stick a crest of goose quills into a champagne cork. They began to bat the cork back & forth across the cord with empty bottles. Suddenly the party came...
...polio four years ago. His name was not clear on the specimen bottle and a researcher misread it as "Saukett." In this form it is now perpetuated, beyond hope of correction, in countless scientific publications. -Hence the name, poliomyelitis-literally, inflammation of the grey marrow (part of the spinal cord). -Both his brothers chose careers on the borders of medicine. Herman. 34, is a veterinarian in Mars, Pa. Lee, 27, is a candidate for a Ph.D...