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...children. He owed the grocer, the milkman, the rice dealer. Two weeks ago he sold the family sewing machine to pay the milkman. Last week he fed the whole family a ceremonial meal of rice and red beans. Afterward Ishii strangled his wife and five children with a kimono cord, and went out to end his own life. On the street, the rice dealer accosted him and dunned him for the overdue bill...
Prometheus stood more or less upright (proved by the fact that his spinal cord entered the skull from below). His teeth were more human thai, apelike, and there is evidence that, like Samson, he used animal jawbones as clubs. Dr. Dart also reported on a stone-working creature that lived in the Transvaal 500,000 to 750,000 years ago. His primitive "pebble tools" have been found in gravel pits, but no bones have been found...
...plane was only 150 feet from the earth. He was wearing a chute with a hand-operated ripcord. "I looked at the ground and I knew there was no one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two, one-thousand-three-that's what you count before you pull the cord-time...
...Forbidden City, to China proper and to Russia. Peking newspapers now reach Lhasa in ten days; before Mao they took several months. One 1,400-mile road starts from Sinkiang, at the edge of Russia, and curves through Tibet parallel to the Indian frontier (see map). From this strategic cord, side roads will point toward every major pass of the Himalayan mountains. The Chinese Communists are also laying down airfields in western Tibet, using Russian engineers and Russian equipment on all these projects...
...Garding Lost Positives [Sept. 21], Cord's lightful proach to pressing English vides a tremely citing and dividually new cept. Am trigued with his nitiative. Trust my terpretation of cerpts in your story is cise...