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While Booth galloped over the Navy Yard bridge into southern Maryland, official Washington collapsed in "inert panic." Instead of directing pursuit of the assassin, the capital's police chief, who was in the audience and saw him, rushed off to tell his detectives to gather witnesses. Four soldiers bore the mortally wounded President to a tailor's house across from the theater. Word flashed that an attacker had stabbed Secretary of State Seward, bedridden by a recent accident. Washington's army commandant, General Christopher C. Augur, sent patrols out helter-skelter and waited for orders from...
Within his tale of love-in-wartime, Author Remarque tries to raise serious questions about German guilt and corruption, and whether a soldier's first duty is to his country or his conscience. Unfortunately, he leaves such passages so dramatically inert that he continually seems to be chewing more than he has really bitten...
...first child in the nation inoculated in the mass trials of the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk (TIME, March 29). Randy, like the rest of the Virginia kids, knew that he was getting real vaccine. (In a dozen states, half the children are being given an inert control substance.) Randy's comment: "I could hardly feel it. It hurt less than a penicillin shot...
...graders and use first-and third-graders as "controls." But there might be big differences between the rates, even in these adjacent age groups, and other sources of error. So in eleven states, half the youngsters in the three grades will get the vaccine while half will get an inert solution, tinted to the same cherry-soda hue. Only after the polio season is over will the code numbers be unlocked so that the records will show precisely to what extent children who received the vaccine escaped polio as compared with others of the same...
...they entice Ravinel's wife Mireille to Nantes, their object is murder and their motive is 2,000,000 francs of insurance money. As a killer, Ravinel proves tender and compassionate. After Mireille drinks a carefully prepared potion, her eyes close and Ravinel tearfully helps to lower her inert body into a bathtub full of water. "Don't worry, Mireille," he says. "You won't feel anything ... I swear I never wanted to do you any harm...