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...nearly 30 years the little mummy lay in the museum on a bed of naphthalene crystals in a cheap, brown-stained wooden box. Its rusted cloth wrappings were worm-eaten and frayed with age. The exposed face and head were blackened by the embalming process. Because the name was translated as Diana, Vancouver's schoolchildren were led to believe that their favorite exhibition was once a young girl...
...Pfizer pig-brooder the recording plays every hour on the hour, 24 hours a day. The little pigs thrive mightily under this forced draught. None are trampled or eaten; no luckless runts are left teatless. Pfizer says that out of 3,000 pigs scientifically nursed on six farms, only 5% died. The normal mortality under the sow's regimen is 21% to 33%. The pigs grow faster, too. They reach 28 Ibs. in six weeks instead of the normal eight weeks, and they attain marketable size 40 days earlier...
...British lion, which had seemed mangy and moth-eaten in Iran, put on a show of bared fangs that stunned the Egyptians. British Tommies, not overly tender with their bayonets, picked up Egyptian officials who were making trouble and booted them out of the zone. As the 40,000 Egyptian laborers who served the zone installations faded away, British tanks rumbled into neighboring villages and herded laborers into British-run camps. Said the British: they were not running press gangs, merely giving "safe conduct" to the workers...
...last week, after Commissioner de Raymond had eaten a heavy lunch and was enjoying his usual siesta, le petit Tho, armed with a sledge hammer and a Boy Scout knife, slipped into the air-conditioned bedroom. With one blow of the sledge hammer he smashed the Commissioner's skull. He plunged the knife several times into his chest and spleen, finally cut the Commissioner's throat, leaving the knife embedded in the wound. Le petit Tho then carefully rifled the Commissioner's effects, taking his watch, ring and pistol. He left the room, locking the door behind...
...both. In the cities, she usually lives with a roommate (for respectability and lower rent) in a small apartment, fitted with chintz slipcovers, middlebrow poetry and a well-equipped kitchenette. Rare and fortunate is the bachelor who has not been invited to a "real, home-cooked dinner." to be eaten off a shaky bridge table, by a young woman who during the daytime is a space buyer or a dentist's assistant...