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...footnote to "Autoeroticism" [July 22]: in 1963, during an Army hitch in Germany, I was taken to Josef Beinert for a job estimate on my car. Beinert, apparently part of a vanishing German remnant, eyed my features with suspicion. Taking my German friend aside, he said, "I guess we missed making soap out of him during the war." Two weeks later, he met his death as you describe...
...their 20-mm. cannon and 2.75 rockets. The APCs move forward into the smoke, are stopped again by a pocket of fire. The U.S. commander barks into his radio. In response, five miles away a battery of huge 175-mm. guns elevates slowly, and systematically begins to destroy the remnant of resistance...
Scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories last year detected a band of microwave radiation from a specific celestial source. It is this radiation, Layzer argues, that in the degraded remnant of that energy which this pressure produced billions of years...
...antiquities dealer by selling the famed Dead Sea Scrolls. Kando in turn alerted American archaeologists working in Israel, and Harvard's Frank M. Cross Jr. went to Israel to acquire and study the Samaritan finds. Now Archaeologist Cross knows more about ancient Samaritan history than does the remnant of the tribe that still survives...
...Venice with a dreamily beautiful but coldly ambisextrous adventurer, to whom she wrote 26 stormy love letters that appear for the first time in these volumes. Soon jilted, Lady Mary stayed on in Italy until, at 72, she announced: "I am dragging my ragged remnant of life to England." When she arrived, half of London turned out to inspect the legendary monster. Her vivacity was so great that nobody guessed she was dying of cancer. To Lady Mary herself, death was a matter of indifference. "I have lived long enough," she declared firmly. And she was off to catch...