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...lamp post!"-the French Revolution's cry for summary justice-was heard again in modern form in France last week. Mild-mannered François de Menthon, French Minister of Justice, reported to the Consultative Assembly on the purge. Thus far, 60,000 prosecutions, 7,053 sentences (including 574 death sentences) have been carried out. Minister De Menthon was interrupted by fierce heckling. Cried resistance delegates: too many reprieves-"danger to the nation in a policy of weakness and evasion on matters of repression...
...Love Lite"-a small boudoir lamp that exudes an aphrodisiac fragrance...
...plunged from the carrier, Lieut. Ladwig was pulled aboard a destroyer-after three of its crew had slipped from its net and had been fished out. The destroyer's skipper, noticing that Ladwig's breath was fumy with gasoline, ordered the ship's smoking lamp doused (i.e., "no smoking"). Only then did Ladwig feel it was safe to utter a long "Whew...
...beam of light bends when it passes from water to air or vice versa; it also bends when it passes through air masses of varying density. Barnes and Bellinger caught these rapid changes in air density by means of an extremely fast mercury lamp with an exposure of less than one-millionth of a second. The light, flashed through a region of disturbed air, recorded on a photographic plate a "shadowgraph" showing groups of bunched air molecules. Using a more elaborate rig, which has a knife-edge that stops all but the bent light rays, the experimenters developed a technique...
...soup, breast of chicken, then pulled out his speech text and went to work. Pencil in hand, wetting his big thumb from time to time as he turned the pages, he read the speech over to himself, speaking softly, gesturing slightly. In the unflattering light of the little reading lamp, his weary face looked seamed and haggard. As he read he would jot down little interpolations, asides and personal stage directions. This was the old ; experienced actor, going through the final" rehearsal. Much depended on this speech...