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More than half the accused, mostly hollow-cheeked young men in their early 20s, withdrew their pretrial confessions...
...over the years a near-perfect negative impression of the figure they had enclosed. By a technique refined by Archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri. currently in charge of Pompeii excavations, the presence of the ash cavities is detected by cautiously tapping the ground with blunted pickaxes. When the excavators spot a hollow, they drill several holes through the stratum of ash, pour thinned plaster of Paris into the cavity. After allowing the plaster time to harden, workers can chip away the surrounding ash to uncover a cast of the eruption victim...
...bristled with two 37-mm. cannon, four .50-cal. machine guns. No sooner was it aloft than Bell was busy with a radical single-engined fighter, the P-39. It was the first single-engined U.S. fighter with tricycle landing gear, had a 37-mm. cannon firing through the hollow prop hub. Expanding from 100 workers to 55,000 at five plants around the U.S. in World War II, Bell built 12,900 fighters (many of which were lend-leased to the Russians), and by 1944 was in production with another innovation, the Bell P-59 Airacomet, first...
...Worth Defending? Feeling a desperate need for some sort of morale-saving fight, Washington quickly sent two small forces of Rhode Islanders, Virginians and Connecticut Rangers south across the Hollow Way (approximately 125th Street), and soon a brisk tussle started for possession of a buckwheat field atop the heights on which Columbia University and Riverside Church now stand. Though Knowlton (after saying, "I do not value my life if we do but get the day") fell mortally wounded, the Continentals fought their way out of the rocks and for the first time "had the pleasure of seeing the backs...
...Kremlin for much of the trouble.The recent downgrading of Stalin, with all its agonizing zigzags in Red doctrine has confused and disgruntled even the most faithful readers. Beyond that, as international tensions ease and Italy's economy grows stronger. Communist rantings about the West are beginning to ring hollow to many Italians. Admits Giancarlo Pajetta. Italy's No. 2 Communist and the Reds' press boss: "Less international tension is bad for the party press. People lose interest...