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...only new finding: a grim postscript from the Swedish Royal Medical Board. Contrary to earlier belief, the Secretary-General did not die instantly when he was thrown clear of the burning plane, but lay struggling for air in the bush until he suffocated because of injuries to his lungs, chest and spine...
Cold War Currency. Writing his own postscript to the invasion, Fidel Castro last week turned the 1,000 prisoners he took at the Bay of Pigs into cold war currency. Recalling Spain's exchange of Napoleon's soldiers for pigs,* Castro told a crowd of whooping peasants: "We are a little more refined. We will exchange them for bulldozers." The price would be 500 bulldozers. "Otherwise they must pay by hard work, very hard work, digging trenches and building fortifications." After a weekend celebration of his newly awarded Lenin Peace Prize, Castro sent a committee of ten prisoners...
...father took over the London embassy. Informed that Peter was an animal lover, the President pointed out India's "fascinating possibilities (although I gather that cobras have to be handled professionally)," encouraged the lad to think of himself as part of "a junior Peace Corps," added an intimate postscript: "I wish a little that I were going also...
...obligation to make sure that the remainder of the 20th century eradicates the conditions spawning such separatist movements in order to avoid the tragic consequences of similar "cargo cults." The "Messiah" who appeared to the Western Indians about 1890 also promised them an Armageddon with a postscript of a land of "milk and honey" reserved exclusively for red men, of course. The result was gunpowder, chaos and tragedy for those who tried to hurry Armageddon, and those who maintained quiet hopes must still be waiting. Spencer C. D. Jourdain...
...shocked Franklin hagiographers. Old Mistresses Apologue, which he wrote for an anonymous young friend, listed eight sound reasons for preferring a seasoned older woman to a raw young one. It was the eighth reason that was too much for later generations-"they are so grateful!!" Even the equally sensible postscript ("But still I advise you to marry directly") failed to save Ben from the Victorian suspicion that he was not a totally respectable...