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...worked stones, bits of metal, coins, glass, trading tokens and pottery. Although metal, unlike the other objects, encrusts with soil as it degenerates, it is identifiable by its density and bright color in the soil. If the soil is damp enough, organic material--leather, insects and their eggs, seeds, rope, wood, flesh, grass and flowers, cloth, animal and human feces--remains fresh and preserved. Non-organic finds, pottery and bones, are washed by the diggers, who quickly learned that potwashing with a toothbrush and cold water is no privilege. Organic finds are cleaned, repaired and otherwise conserved by the research...
...death penalty has been abolished before in Anglo-Saxon law. William the Conqueror banished it during his reign (1066-87), though he did not object to criminals being mutilated. But a few years later, Henry I (1100-35) permitted the ax and rope to return, and by the 16th century, offenders were also being drowned, drawn and quartered and boiled to death for crimes that ranged from cutting down a tree to stealing property worth more than a shilling. Traitors were hanged, then cut down while still alive, disemboweled so that their innards could be burned before their eyes, then...
...justify their positions. Even the cleanest execution-and an appalling number are not-is so revolting to see that witnesses commonly vomit and faint. Electrocution is relatively swift, though the victim's flesh sometimes burns while his eyes strain out of their sockets. With cyanide and the rope, it sometimes takes five minutes for the dying man to fall totally unconscious, and usually 15 minutes before he is pronounced dead...
...Europe, having acquired 16 firms in varied fields there this year. Telecommunications equipment accounts for about half of its European sales, and the company has expanded into automotive components, heating and ventilation equipment, and myriad other product areas. Last week the company named a new president for ITT-Eu-rope, which will have sales this year of about $2.7 billion, some 36% of the firm's global total.- He is Michel C. Bergerac, 39, who is almost as multinational as ITT itself. French-born "Mike" Bergerac is a naturalized U.S. citizen and has a home in Brussels. A Fulbright...
...rival, it was good for sales. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who has lately turned to writing for the theater and the movies (Carnal Knowledge), was both repelled and drawn to the Boy Wonder. "One need only look at him," Feiffer writes, "to see he could fight better, swing from a rope better, play ball better, eat better, and live better. For while I lived in the East Bronx, Robin lived in a mansion, and while I was trying somehow to please my mother-and getting it all wrong-Robin was rescuing Batman and getting the gold medals. You can imagine...