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...When Reasoner called the phone company to complain about digit dialing, the response made him fume: "They've got that defense in depth, whereby the first three people you talk to know only one phrase each, like a chimp trained to press a lever for a banana-flavored pellet...
Just before the door to the octagonal, green gas chamber in California's San Quentin prison clanged shut, the condemned man twisted toward the witnesses. Straining against the eight thick straps that bound him to a chair, he cried: "I am Jesus Christ!" Moments later, a pellet of potassium cyanide was dropped into a solution of dilute sulfuric acid, and blowers began sucking the lethal gas upward. Within twelve minutes, Aaron Mitchell, 37, who was convicted of slaying a Sacramento policeman during a 1963 tavern holdup, was dead. He was the first man to be executed in California...
Death Was Temporary. Meredith, blood oozing from some 70 pellet wounds in head and body, was whisked to Memphis in an ambulance. Because of a ludicrous series of gaffes by the Associated Press, millions of shocked Americans thought Meredith had been killed (see PRESS). As doctors at Memphis' William F. Bowld Hospital soon discovered, he was only suffering from "multiple superficial abrasions...
Later, an icy wind swirled dust into a branding pen. Students rassled struggling calves to the ground, shoved a tube with a medical pellet down their throats, rammed a needle into their shoulders to vaccinate against blackleg and hemorrhagic septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi...
Timed-release decongestant medicines contain hundreds of small but visible pellets of gelatin-or wax-coated drugs in a single dose. The period required for each pellet to dissolve in the digestive system and release its drug varies from almost no time at all to as long as twelve hours, depending on the thickness of the coating. Measurin tablets contain some 6,000 microscopic particles of aspirin, each coated with a semipermeable plastic. Gastric fluids flow through the plastic walls and dissolve the aspirin-which flows out of the capsule at a controlled rate for a continuous eight-hour period...