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Before an audience of 2,000 correspondents, cameramen and spectators in Moscow University's ornate assembly hall, Russia's space twins, Major Andrian Nikolayev and Lieut. Colonel Pavel Popovich, last week underwent a four-hour earth post-mortem of their memorable exploit in space...
...senior scientist at Britain's top-secret germ-warfare laboratory cried out for explanation. The first War Office announcement only stimulated curiosity. It was possible, said a cautious official spokesman, that Geoffrey Bacon, 44, had been killed by "an accidental infection resulting from his work." A post mortem examination two days later revealed the full horror of what had happened. Researcher Bacon had been a victim of pneumonic plague, a form of the fiercely contagious Black Death that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, slaughtering millions and depopulating whole cities...
...still too early, of course, to post-mortem the 1962 basebell season, but as the year, with the schedule two-thirds completed, goes into the top of the seventh, now is an appropriate time to stand up and stretch and look back on what has so far been the most exciting season in recent memory...
...Post-Mortem in Zurich. As they struggled to straighten out their own finances, it was more difficult to find such concern for Eddy Gilbert's welfare among other of his former friends and associates. Before he resigned as president of E. L. Bruce Co., Inc., and fled to Brazil, Gilbert admitted to writing $1,953,000 in unauthorized company checks in a futile effort to meet margin calls on his stock in Bruce and Chicago's Celotex Corp. Fortnight ago. a federal grand jury charged fraud and ticked off 15 counts that, if proved, could put Gilbert...
...Iraqi-born financier who makes a specialty of lending money to would-be securities buyers on low margins but high interest rates, ruefully admitted that his firm had some $2,000,000 riding on Gilbert. "We won't know about our losses," said Zilkha. "until a post-mortem is made...