Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as his father's body was brought to the burning ghat near the same temple, the new King's subjects were ordered to go-and pay homage. Men shaved their heads and donned mourning clothes of unbleached cotton. For 13 days no Nepalese would take salt, eat more than one meal a day, or sleep on anything but straw. As the flames licked at the royal cadaver, thousands of Nepalese set up a mournful wail. But King Mahendra was not present; Nepalese custom demanded that he alone of all his late father's subjects must...
...audience in the 250-seat auditorium of the sleek new Veterans Administration Hospital in Salt Lake City last week was restless at first. But no audience ever entered more wholeheartedly into the spirit of a production. For the spectators were mental patients, and they were watching fellow patients enact a play about something they all felt intimately -the appearance of mental illness under unbearable strain. The play: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial...
...stubbornest disorders to treat is painter's colic-lead poisoning. Two Alabama researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine that they have treated 19 cases easily and successfully with a trick salt called disodium calcium versenate. Lead replaces the calcium and is expelled in the urine...
...future course of NBC's spectaculars is undecided. For himself, Liebman would like to handle more things but with less personal involvement: "Up till now I've been in the salt mines in contact with every part of the operation. I may just turn executive producer and supervise a number of shows, say a half-hour comedy, an hour variety and a half-hour musical as well as a few color spectaculars." That way, he thinks, he might get a few hours off to call...
...Green Scarf Delict's client (Kieron Moore), charged with murder, is blind and deaf, and refuses to defend himself. To Deliot, of course, such problems are merely salt to his solitary porridge. After one of those sketchy investigations that create almost as much mystery as they resolve, he produces, in a clever courtroom scene, the full portrait of the crime, including the face of the killer. Actor Redgrave is the making of the show, though at times he almost fidgets it away. Kieron Moore, Leo Genn and Jane Henderson are excellent. It's a nice little puzzler...