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Winding Sheet. To make Joseph confess, the Gouws tied him to a tractor and beat him with a hose pipe. Then they dragged him into a tobacco shed, where watching Negroes counted 66 more lashes with the hose. "They kept lifting Joseph up and hitting him," said one witness afterwards. But Joseph persisted in his denial, so the Gouws tossed him into the truck again and drove off to consult their uncle, 69-year-old Pieter van Schalkwyk. While the family took coffee together, Joseph was left in the sun, tied to the truck with a thong around his neck...
...Petrov, the departing staff at Canberra's Russian embassy spent their last hours getting rid of other information that might prove valuable to the West. Black smoke belched from the embassy chimneys as files went into fireplaces, and on the embassy lawn a Russian stood guard with a hose over a bonfire, not hesitating to turn a full stream of water into the face of any snooper peering through the hedge. In Moscow the Russians held up the departure of the Australian embassy staff, after first ordering them out of the country within three days...
...Parks aide and fellow submariner, Commander Slade Cutter, onetime Annapolis football hero (he kicked the field goal that beat Army 3-0 in the 1934 game), was the direct source of the leak ("Hell" said an old Pentagon hand, "that was no leak, it was a fire hose"). The inside dope from the Parks office, as splashed out in the Pentagon pressroom: the atomic submarine Nautilus is really unsuited for combat; it is too big, too expensive, too noisy; its torpedo tubes were added as an afterthought; its sonar equipment will not work at high speed; it has no safety...
Self-Service. In Grand Rapids, Mich., sheriff's deputies arrested Nils Bundy after they traced a 200-ft. garden hose leading from a service station to his home, discovered that he had been pumping gasoline into a 30-gal. drum in his basement...
...under study by the Hose Ways and Means Committee, the Multer Bill is expected to pass in January. It provides for "a deduction for income tax purposes of certain expenses incurred by the taxpayer for the education of a dependent...