Word: foot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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County Sheriff Earl Robinson and Garden City police found the other bodies: Wife Bonnie in an upstairs bedroom, Herb Clutter and his son Kenyon in the basement. The killers had murdered coolly, systematically. They had bound their victims hand and foot with nylon cord, gagged Nancy with a scarf and the others with two-inch-wide adhesive tape. Then, one by one, they had slaughtered the Clutters, shooting each in the face with a shotgun held a few inches away. Before or after shooting Herbert Clutter, the murderers had cut Clutter's throat. Whatever terrible rage seethed inside them...
Wires & Wax. The cheating was an old story. In the cheaper shops where the ignorant or the unwary traded, callous butchers were caught using a variety of methods. Some merely weighed their thumbs with the meat. Some attached a wire from the scale to a foot pedal that they controlled from below, or blocked the customer's side of the scale with canned goods, or laid meat on a long sheet of waxed paper, then pulled on the end of the paper to increase the weight reading. Others weighed one cut of meat but substituted an inferior or smaller...
...enormous crowd in the square was held back from the gallows by police and 200 soldiers. Latecomers were arriving by taxi, and villagers streamed in on foot from the surrounding countryside. Mahmud was hailed by the thunderous cry of "Salavat" (Felicity to Mohammed and his descendants). Before his hands were bound, Mahmud handed a ring to the executioner, an ancient custom intended to ensure a speedy death for a condemned man. The noose was slipped about his neck, and the hangman and his assistants hauled smartly on the rope. Mahmud shot six feet off the ground-then the rope broke...
Blinding snow storms less than 2000 feet from the top forced back the famous 1953 attempt to conquer the 28,250 foot peak in Pakistan. Scenes of the party's efforts to save one of its members, who eventually fell to his death, are included in the 90 minute film...
Tech Planning Officer Malcolm D. Rivkin '53 said M.I.T. owns the property, but the City has an easement for a sidewalk in a strip along the parking lot. Rivkin explained that M.I.T. has drawn up preliminary plans for the garage, but needs part of a 37-square-foot triangle now occupied by the sidewalk to facilitate building...