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...sniffed danger and summoned from San Francisco a lawyer she kept on retainer for occasions like this. By the time Attorney Dade Cooley, an urbane 60-year-old, and his astute wife Ellen reach the Toulouse-Carcassonne canal, Kate has just surfaced, as dead as Ophelia, in a lock. In a classic, Christie-precise scenario, Cooley discovers that the murders almost certainly involve Kate's obsessive desire to own a priceless 35-carat ruby, a relic of the Crusades, which was stolen and has been missing for several years...
...propensity to bring such suits has been spurred by news of large victories. The most famous case involved Singer Connie Francis, who was raped at a Howard Johnson's motel on Long Island, N.Y., in 1974. She charged that the motel-room lock was faulty; a jury awarded her $2.5 million in damages. Some recent decisions also involve whopping sums, and somewhat unlikely defendants. In California, a drunken driver plowed into the rear end of a station wagon parked on the shoulder of a freeway; the wagon had been left without lights by a police officer who was arresting...
Pyle said that some Mason-fellows are so impressed with what they have learned about management that they want to import their favorite courses lock, stock, and barrel. One former minister in the Burmese government upon returning home from his year as a Mason fellow persuaded his government to establish a K-School course on microeconomics as part of the curriculum at the University of Rangoon. He wired the Kennedy School and asked for the entire course packet to be sent special delivery...
...star of Clark. Thus he became the Leonard Bernstein of the visual arts, a fate that enormously surprised him: once, after running the gauntlet of hysterical fans at a ceremony in his honor at the National Gallery in Washington, he was so overcome with embarrassment that he had to lock himself in a bathroom and weep. He could not see why they saw him as a healer, but the reason is clear today...
...fateful year that was Mussolini's twelfth in power and Hitler's first. On the boat from Naples to the island, the young anti-Fascist asks himself: "Is it possible to live in despair and not wish for death?" At that moment his eyes lock with those of a German tourist, a teen-age girl who transfixes him with a pleading, desperate look. Lightning strikes. The girl, Beate, is accompanied by a husband as wickedly repellent as a German sketched by George Grosz. Beate later tells Lucio: "My husband horrifies me; his hands are stained with blood...