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...reason curanderas are popular is that they charge less than doctors. Furthermore, they treat ailments that doctors cannot touch. Only brujas can cure children of the evil-eye sickness (one way is to rub the child's forehead with an herb called tronadora). Doctors can do little for the pangs of unlucky love, but any bruja worth her fee knows that a dried hummingbird pinned inside a girl's dress will usually bring back a strayed lover...
Dirge Without Death. The Communists charged that one of their military police platoons had been attacked by U.N. armed forces inside the Kaesong neutral zone. Two men had been wounded and one was finished off by "shots at the forehead." Alan Winnington, Communist correspondent of the London Daily Worker, invited three U.N. reporters and a U.N. officer to attend the dead hero's funeral. There were wreaths and silken banners, speeches and accordion music-but no casket. North Korea's Nam II was there, impassively smoking...
Better than Expected. Parliamentary tactics grew so confused that half of the members, half of the time, did not know which side they were voting on; Percy Priest, Democratic whip, pranced up & down the aisle, beating his forehead in frustration, trying to keep his boys in line...
...chunky owner of the voice, Edwin L. Baron, "master hypnotist," padded softly among the entranced women. When an eyelid fluttered, he put his hand on the sleeper's forehead, murmuring his message again. "Now I will count to three and you will wake up," he said briskly. With yawns and stretches, they woke. The lesson had lasted half an hour...
...harmless-looking sort-he had the severe mouth, high forehead and martyred gaze of a divinity student; he was nearsighted, and wore rimless spectacles. No cop bothered him as he wandered toward the Washington Monument in the national capital one evening last week, with a .38 revolver and a roll of adhesive tape in his pocket. Though it was still light, he ducked, unnoticed, into the front seat of a parked sedan...