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...first time in five years Batavia echoed to the burst of festive fireworks rather than lethal gunfire. Food parcels were distributed to the poor as the people prepared for a great selamatan (feast). Forgetting for once their mutual distrust, the city's rival Dutch and Indonesian mayors joined forces on the Palace balcony to scatter 1,000 kilograms of copper coins over the jubilant throngs below...
...good effect, at least a dozen times, and croons Beside You to her unwilling protector. Alan Ladd gets into the act briefly-and so does Bing Crosby at the last possible moment. In a fine moment burlesquing death-cell stoicism, Hope, getting ready for San Quentin's lethal chamber, sneers his low opinion of jails that haven't even changed over to electricity...
When airplanes crash, pilot error or faulty maintenance usually takes the blame for the spectacular carnage. In train wrecks, generally less lethal, the same factors apply. Last week...
...radioactivity produced by the Bikini bombs," Dr. Teller points out, "was detected within about one week in the United States. It was weak, com pletely harmless. . . . But there is a threshold beyond which radioactivity has lethal effects. . . . Sufficiently strong radio activity will kill all living tissue...
Hall to observe the diamond (60th) jubilee of an organization which led a major revolution without splitting an infinitive, breaking a teacup or exploding anything more lethal than an economic theory...