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Handicap. In Chicago, police could not find the culprit when Boston Linwood complained that his car had been damaged by a hit-and-run horse...
...issue had been dead for 16 years, and Nassau's nice people never talked about it. But last week Cyril Stevenson, an irreverent minority member of Nassau's House of Assembly, loudly claimed that he knew who did Sir Harry in. Stevenson did not identify the culprit, Sir Harry's murderer stayed doggo, and the whole effect was rather like spilling the canape tray at a Government House garden party...
...sandy brown, close-cropped hair parted to the left, brown eyes, chubby cheeks. Only when the FBI took both men into the bank-each dressed in the same clothes he had worn on the day of the attempted holdup-was Eileen Thomas able to identify the culprit: James Anderson...
...most popularly suspected microbes are usually not to blame for the diarrhea that strikes in major tourist centers. His research team based its findings mainly on the experience of travelers to Europe and Mexico, found that amoebae and the most-feared bacteria could be eliminated as suspects. A probable culprit in many cases: microbes of the common genus Staphylococcus, which may multiply in food kept under poor refrigeration and prepared under unsanitary conditions-but this usually has nothing to do with fecal contamination of food and water. In other cases, overeating and consumption of highly spiced or oily foods...
...merely a matter of telling a student to get out: "The Entire college was assembled in hall, the President announced the crime and the Corporation's sentence," and the expelled member's name was formally cut out of a list of the students. Often, however, if the culprit made a public confession, and convinced the Faculty that he had repented, he was reinstated. There are a few instances in which students expelled for fornication or other "atrocious" crimes, were readmitted a year later. One even became a minister...