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...Laval, death was like a very messy bus accident. He was lying on his cot as officials approached the cell to take him. Before they could reach him, he slipped a poison capsule into his mouth, rolled writhing to the floor...
...When Knauth and Wertenbaker left after the Potsdam conference I was sleeping on a cot in the hall, had the use of a desk, and that's about...
...awakened at 4 a.m. He sleepily rose from his prison cot, donned his seven-star uniform, shuffled into the hushed courtroom. Nonagenarian Marshal Henri Philippe Petain sat nervously at first, then fell into a half-doze...
...macabre occupation. Today, after relatives have consulted with an obsequial engineer, the so-called patient (who may in his lifetime have been a realtor, soda-counter fizzician or canine-control officer) is first preserved by an expert sanitarian, then garbed in a slumber-robe, then laid in his slumber-cot, and finally whisked off in a casket-coach to his appointed burial-abbey...
...ring was a mountainous wreck. His drug dosage had been cut from 40 tablets of paracodeine to 26 tablets daily. Mostly he kept to his cot or his chair (he had to have an outsize one; a small one had crumpled under his 270 Ibs.). He alternately bragged and wept. Last week he went completely to pieces during a thunderstorm-which scared the daylights out of him-and suffered, a heart attack...