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...Their prize persuader was the picana electrica, an "electric needle" that delivered a 12,000-volt jolt. Applied to the lips, soles of the feet or genitals, the picana made the victim convulse with shrieking pain, while leaving no marks. "With the picana" Juan Cardoso once boasted, "you can extract in one session confessions that would have taken four days of sissified questioning...
This spring, selected postmen will set out on their rounds armed with slim aluminum cans shaped like outsize perfume atomizers. If a dog attacks, it will be greeted with a jet of "Halt," an odorless fluid containing mineral oil and an extract of cayenne pepper. Halt's pungency irritates the dog's respiratory system, has not yet given the Humane Society any cause for complaint. Says one safety engineer: "The dog puts his tail between his legs and slinks away to the back of the house." Where, no doubt, he meets the milkman...
...hour's work in Stratton's office, Daley picked up additional revenue for Chicago that now runs about $24 million a year. Stratton also agreed to help push through long-needed legislation to give Chicago home rule. With this power in his pocket, Daley could extract from the ward dukes of his city council a large measure of subservience; he had control over contracts, budgets and jobs. After a series of battles in the council, Daley succeeded in transforming the aldermen into a civic chowder-and-marching society...
...revolution. So, according to the ingenious but preposterous Moscow tale, a careful Russian plan was drawn up to ship the missiles to Cuba without secrecy, install them without camouflage. When Kennedy got word, he would make a fuss, presumably demand negotiations, in which the Russians would be able to extract a no-invasion guarantee for their pal Fidel...
...size of the concerted shipments indicate that they were in the works before the visit to Moscow last month by Fidel's 31-year-old brother Raul, though perhaps he was able to ask for a few more items and the Russians were in a position to extract a few more pledges...