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This year Whiskers grew sick and feeble. Last week a veterinarian discovered that he had a brain tumor and put him out of his misery with a lethal injection of a barbiturate. In their sorrow, the men of Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 experienced something almost like relief. Whiskers had never learned to get back down ladders. He had answered 3,000 alarms, had climbed on an average of twice at each fire, had been cornered in the smoke, rescued against his will, and had been lugged back down to the street-all 60 wriggling pounds of him-on each...
Viewers may remember such visual treats as President Truman's airy "Let's go, boys" gesture to California's Governor Warren and San Francisco's Mayor Elmer Robinson, as he left the platform. Equally memorable were the lethal exchanges between Gromyko, as inflexible as granite, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, as impersonally stern as a veteran headmaster. Poland's bristling Stefan Wierblowski provided drama when, overruled, he remained on the stand, quivering with indignation and spluttering protests, but powerless against the Olympian calm of Acheson...
...radiation sickness, since experiments have already .shown that animals given lethal doses of radiation can recover if blood-linked with normal animals...
...Another common belief, that hemophilia is "the curse of the Habsburgs," is unfounded. It was a lethal gift to the royal families of Europe from Britain's Queen Victoria. Of her four sons only the youngest, Leopold, was a bleeder, died at 31. But two of Victoria's daughters, Alice and Beatrice, carried the disease to their German offspring. Through one of Alice's daughters, it passed to the Czarevitch Alexis (murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918); through Beatrice's daughter to sons of Spain's Alfonso XIII...
Willie McGee had received two reprieves from Supreme Court Justices, but now the court turned him down. He shuffled into the same courtroom in Laurel where he was first tried, and sat down in Mississippi's portable electric chair. The powerful generator that supplied lethal current to the chair whined away. Within a few minutes, Willie McGee was dead...