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...fall of the same year, three men drove up to Maloney's office in Cassville, Missouri. One, a man named Tim, mostly stayed in the car, but he came up to the office door once, enough for Maloney to notice the way he smiled. There was the glint of a tooth filling on the right side at the back of his mouth--a detail that matches McVeigh's dental records, FBI sources say. The second visitor in Cassville was apparently Nichols, who used his own name but took little part in the conversations. It was the third...
Many of the couple's most famous discoveries were hers. One of the earliest occurred in October 1948, when Mary caught the glint of a tooth during an expedition to Lake Victoria's fossil-rich Rusinga Island. It was part of the jaw and skull fragments of a creature called Proconsul africanus, then widely thought to be a human ancestor (though now considered more closely related to the apes). The discovery made them so "exhilarated and also utterly content with each other," Mary wrote in her 1984 biography, Disclosing the Past, "that we cast aside care..." She gave birth...
...have been called Lust or All-Consuming Ambition, and I came roaring forth filled with a soaring zest to converse, to consume, to bunk down with my fellow countrymen and especially countrywomen on the warm, level mattress of Democracy. But somewhere along the way, I discerned a cold, repellent glint in America's eye. Maybe it was my stepfather's rages, or the way my wife's face hardened when the subject turned to cattle futures or real estate or banking. So I learned quick enough to hide my appetites under a pious exterior and save the warmth...
...possibly even more shocking. The detective, played by Martin Balsam, is climbing the stairway of Norman Bates' creepy old house, his cautious tread accompanied by a few high-pitched notes in the violins, pregnant with mystery and menace. As he reaches the landing, a door flies open in a glint of flashing steel: suddenly the strings shriek rhythmically, as the knife blade slashes down and the stricken cop topples backward to his death in a symphony of pizzicato cellos and basses. We not only see his death; we hear it as well...
Well before channel surfing was a glint in an engineer's eye, Zenith was a power to be reckoned with. The U.S. brand whose name suggests the summit of aspiration was born on a Chicago kitchen table in 1918, when two wireless-radio buffs turned out equipment for other amateurs. In the 1940s, Zenith went into making TV sets in a big way, and in 1956 it introduced the parents -- or grandparents -- of today's couch potatoes to the idea of remote control with its Space Command device...