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Conditioned Reflex. In Melbourne, Australia, Thomas Joseph O'Shea was freed on a charge of insulting a policeman after he told the judge that his cough, and not the passing cop, had made him stick out his tongue...
...Stewardess Nancy Taylor, checking her passenger lists in the rear of the plane, heard an engine cough, begin to sputter, then die: "It made a terrible rumbling sound." The plane nosed downward. The radio at Newark Tower crackled out a message: "Is everything all right?" The pilot replied: "I lost an engine. Am coming back...
...office broke into the home of Antonio Rochin, a 22-year-old truck driver whom they suspected of carrying narcotics. Before they could stop him, Rochin swallowed the only evidence against him-two morphine capsules. The deputies choked him and pummeled him, trying unsuccessfully to make him cough them up. Then they dragged him to a hospital, forced him on to an operating table, where a doctor "pumped" out his stomach to get the evidence. The judge gave him 60 days...
...large seemed to share that sentiment. There were some loud dissents. Cried Texas' Senator Tom Connally: rather than cough up the ransom, the U.S. should "get tough," break diplomatic relations, apply an economic boycott. But few Americans were willing to sound off so bravely from the safety of home. The prevailing opinion: pay the ransom first, then crack down hard on the kidnapers...
...three: 1)silicosis, caused by inhaling finely powdered rock dust, 2) cancer, brought on by radiation from the pitchblende, and 3) tuberculosis, as a complication of the first two. At first, the victim feels short of breath.Then he gets acute pains in the chest and back, and begins to cough a lot. Later comes a racking, bloody cough, rapid loss of weight, and a grey, cadaverous look about the face. The victim is doomed, though he may suffer on for months or years...