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There was a time and a climate when it could have been different. Right after World War II, before the arteries hardened, before rigor mortis began to set in, when the Liberalism of the '30's contended with the Reaction of the late '40's. It was a good fight...
Last week Judge Joseph W. Vickers threw out Russian Exile Stravinsky's damage suit (headlined the New York Daily News: IGOR MORTIS), but added sympathetically that a suit against Leeds for breach of contract might be more in order: "The court feels that a composer has the right to...
For the sake of variety, European-trained Jesus Molina decided on a supine position. With a contractor's thoroughness, Molina consulted with scores of doctors on bone structure and rigor mortis, attended all the town's autopsies. The result, a massive, 6 ft. 2 in. figure of stone...
One of Austin's fellow Councilmen, musing on the sudden death last week of Brazilian Delegate Leao Velloso, remarked: "I hope Austin doesn't get back in time to make a memorial speech. He'll insist on defining rigor mortis."
By reconstructing the Viru Valley region, the diggers can span the whole sweep of the human cycle, from its primitive beginnings to rigor mortis.