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...returning to Paris from strife-torn Indo-China with important documents which he had prepared for an interstate conference between Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. Scheduled for June 26, the conference had to be postponed as a result of Maux's death. Also on the first plane: Raymond Rivet of the French Ministry of Finance. Rivet carried with him a full report on drug peddling, smuggling, and the dollar black market in Saigon...
...spent almost two years in service, on the Mexican border and in France, dispatching more letters to his grandfather. A veteran at 17, he lost patience with school and determined to be a writer, like O. Henry. Meanwhile, he sold shirts and newspaper subscriptions, worked as a rivet catcher in the shipyards and a poster tinter in a theater lobby. Writing furiously, he sold a story called Mad Desire to Physical Culture. (The subtitle: "Determined to die in a futile effort to make amends, love points him a better way and rekindles his desire to live...
...reduce efficiency, impair health and affect the workers' home life. The source of his data: 2,549 workers at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard (now closed) whose cornmandant had invited Hargrave to make the study. Amid the clang of steel, the rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers and riveting machines, Earman Hargrave interviewed man after man. Some of his findings: ¶| Even the hard of hearing had no trouble with common shop talk, e.g., such words as blower, rivet, steel. But unfamiliar words spoken by strangers were unintelligible under the same conditions. ¶ "The stone-deaf learn...
...Roger then ordered the bodies of Marie's first husband and other relatives exhumed and analyzed. One by one, as the weeks went by, the reports came in: Auguste Antigny, first husband of Marie Besnard, died 1927, overdose of arsenic; Madame Leconte, a cousin, died 1939, arsenic; Madame Rivet, a friend, died 1939, arsenic; Marcellin Besnard, a father-in-law, died 1940, arsenic; Marie Louise Davailland, a sister-in-law, died 1940, arsenic; Monsieur Rivet, died 1941, arsenic; Alice Bodin, a sister-in-law, died 1941, arsenic; Marie Louise Besnard, a mother-in-law, died 1941, arsenic; Pauline...
...Establishment is not worried. Group suggestibility and "vertigo" and the difficulty of judging the speed and distance of an airborne object give plenty of material for the human imagination to work on. In the case of flying saucers, it appears to have worked hard. Since no single bolt or rivet of a mysterious aircraft has yet been found, there is no reason to believe that either Russians or Martians have been tearing off on mysterious cross-country trips over...